Mike Hearn mike@navi.cx writes:
Is anybody working on this, or will it just be a feature regression until somebody changes the way we use native drives?
Nobody's working on it, so it won't be supported until someone cares enough to do it. I encouraged a few people to start working on it but nobody did, so taking out the existing support is a way to provide more encouragement. If that's not enough then the feature simply won't be supported anymore.