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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:27:09 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "Kozlovsky, Maxim" <Maxim.Kozlovsky@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: NDMP for TuxStor Linux
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:17:16 -0600 "Kozlovsky, Maxim"
<Maxim.Kozlovsky@lsi.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> It does not look like taking new code and integrating it with the
> rest of our infrastructure can win over porting the complete working
> implementation. 

I'm in agreement with you on this.

a


> Max
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: William Fisher [mailto:bfisher@lsi.com]
> >Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:06 PM
> >To: Stark, Brian; Sharp, Andy; Fong, Rendell; Kozlovsky, Maxim;
> >Goldick, Jonathan
> >Cc: Fisher, Bill
> >Subject: NDMP for TuxStor Linux
> >
> >Folks:
> >
> >I was looking at the NDMP code last week as part of the
> >scoping of the network tasks, and it seems we do
> >not have anything called out about "porting/adapting" the Onstor
> >NDMP implementation to Linux.
> >
> >I think this task needs some investigation and a few
> >recommendations. With the eventual inclusion of the
> >SSC daemons onto the x86 Linux user code, it might
> >make some sense to consider taking the GPL NDMP
> >implementation for Linux and using that.
> >
> >We used that code at Agami and certified it with
> >a number of venors. Hence that might be a faster
> >route than modifying the current version to
> >work under stock Linux.
> >
> >Comments?
> >
> >-- Bill
