[lustre-devel] Remove libsysio?

[Dilger, Andreas]

On 11/16/12 4:06 PM, "Christopher J. Morrone" <morrone2 at llnl.gov> wrote:

>Will anyone still be using the libsysio subpackage with lustre as of
>Lustre 2.4?  My vague recollection is that it is only needed for systems
>that use catamount, and is no longer needed.
>
>Does anyone object to me removing it from the lustre tree?

I believe libsysio is needed in order for userspace liblustre to be
usable.  It provides the "POSIX/VFS" layer that applications link against,
and then liblustre provides the glue between libsysio and the Lustre
client interfaces (LOV/OSC/MDC).

There isn't a huge amount of interest in liblustre these days I think.

Cheers, Andreas