netlink interface for ethtoola project by mkubecek There seems to be an overall consensus that the ioctl interface used by ethtool is a poor design as it's inflexible, error prone and notoriously hard to extend. It should clearly be replaced by netlink and obsoleted. Unfortunately not much actual work has been done in that direction until this project started. |
Boot system from Ceph RADOS Block Devicean idea by dmdiss Write a new Dracut module which adds support for booting a system where the root filesystem resides on a remote RBD image. |
Add Ceph support for Azure RESTful protocolsan idea by dmdiss Microsoft Azure offers a bunch of interesting RESTful protocols, providing access to objects (Block Blobs, similar to S3 Objects), disk images (Page Blobs) and file systems (Azure Files). The underlying services seem to map pretty closely to RADOS, RBD and CephFS respectively, so adding support for these protocols to Ceph, despite being a lot of work, should be relatively straightforward. |
Make parted great again!a project by sparschauer During regular L3 work I often don't find enough time to work on the command line disk partitioner parted which I maintain. |