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Date:      Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:19:50 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jordanhubbard@icloud.com>
To:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Rakshith Venkatesh <vrock28@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: CEPH + FreeBSD
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> On Sep 3, 2015, at 4:17 AM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>=20
> Slightly off topic but, btw, there is a port of GLusterFS and those =
folks do seem
> interested in seeing it brought "up to speed". I am not sure how =
mature it is at
> this point, but it has been known to build on amd64. (I don't have an =
amd64 machine,
> so I haven't gotten around to building/testing it, but I do plan to =
try and use
> it as a basis for a pNFS server, if I can figure out how to get the FH =
info out of it.
> I'm working on that;-)

There are at least two distributed (multi-node) object stores for =
FreeBSD that I know of.

One is glusterfs, for which I=E2=80=99m not even really clear on the =
status of the ports for.  I don=E2=80=99t see any glusterfs port in the =
master branch of https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports (or =
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/branches/2015Q3 for that =
matter).

Our FreeNAS ports tree (https://github.com/freenas/ports), in which we =
have a bit more latitude to add and curate our own ports, has both a =
net/glusterfs and sysutils/glusterfs, from separate sources (looks like =
we need to clean things up) - net/glusterfs lists =
craig001@lerwick.hopto.org as the MAINTAINER and is at version 3.6.2.  =
The sysutils/glusterfs port lists bapt@FreeBSD.org as the MAINTAINER and =
is at version 20140811.

I=E2=80=99m not really sure about the provenance since we were simply =
evaluating glusterfs for awhile and may have pulled in interim versions =
from those sources, but obviously it would be best to have an official =
maintainer and someone in the FreeBSD project actually curating a =
glusterfs port so that all users of FreeBSD can use it.  It would also =
be fairly key to your own efforts, assuming you decide to pursue =
glusterfs as a foundation technology for pNFS.

The other object store, which is pretty mature and is currently leading =
the pack (of two :) ) for inclusion into FreeNAS is RiakCS from Basho.  =
There is a port currently in databases/riak but it=E2=80=99s pretty out =
of date at version 1.4.12 (the current version is 2.0.1, with 2.0 being =
a major upgrade of RiakCS).

We are very interested in investigating various ways of shimming RiakCS =
to NFS, using RiakCS a back-end store.   Is that something you=E2=80=99d =
be amenable to discussing?   I=E2=80=99d be happy to send you an amd64 =
architecture machine to develop on. :)

- Jordan




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