Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> writes: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 02:16:37PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> "Need BlockBackend" has been a recurring theme for a long time. It's >> finally on master now. Plenty of work left to do. Let's coordinate >> next steps to avoid duplicate work. > > Great job. Thanks for sending this email. I haven't followed closely > and it helps me understand the current status. > > Looks like many of these tasks can be done in parallel.
Indeed! >> * Convert block jobs >> >> We want to divorce jobs from the block layer, but since that'll >> probably take a while, lift them for now. > > Breaking the 1:1 relationship between block jobs and BDS is nice > conceptually, but is there a concrete requirement? Unless there is a > use case that someone needs supported it's best to focus on more urgent > issues. I agree it's not a priority by itself. It may be required to wean code outside the block system off BDS. We'll find out as we do the work.
