2 May
2022
2 May
'22
8:46 p.m.
On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 09:50:28AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
[1] Sadly, when I checked this AM, the OpenSSI website
seemed to be taken
down. I d not believe OpenSSI was ever beyond Linux 2.6 kernel. IMO: It
was a shame that the upstream Linux kernel team had been willing to take
the VPROC changes, it would have been a very interesting and
exciting system enhancement. As Ron said, anyone that used TCF or TNC was
pretty much hooked. I'll have to do some more poking to find out what
happened.
It looks like some sources and mailung list archives for OpenSSI are
still available sourceforage:
https://sourceforge.net/p/ssic-linux
From what I can tell, the OpenSSI folks were focsued on
porting
OpenSSI to various distributions (Fedora, Debian, RHEL), etc., but
they were not focused on getting any of their changes upstream. The
only evidence I can find of OpenSSI on the Linux Kernel mailing list
was a forwarded announcement of OpenSSI 1.0:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/410DDFA2.40107@hp.com/T/#r2b3cfcce5ccd8127a8493…
And apparently OpenSSI had patches to e2fsprogs (since they had a
clusterfied version of ext3), but no one ever sent the OpenSSI
e2fsprogs patches to me for review. So it appears that it was not a
matter of "the upstream Linux kernel team.... [being] willing to take
the VPROC changes", it was more like no one asked, or prepared patches
that could be considered by usptream.
- Ted