Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 01:55:21 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD FS <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What happened with the GlusterFS port? Message-ID: <5352B889.9050608@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <7FAD7618-593D-4797-9EE9-BA36A87CE79B@ultra-secure.de> References: <28234312-7982-49F5-83FD-865649AA9CCB@ultra-secure.de> <1397850220.58880.16.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> <CAKYr3zybY3hdXLpL-fCvqs%2B=syZ7uBE-FiXj%2BXcRGG1YoUZhOQ@mail.gmail.com> <7FAD7618-593D-4797-9EE9-BA36A87CE79B@ultra-secure.de>
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On 4/19/14, 4:43 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am 18.04.2014 um 21:51 schrieb Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>: > >> >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno@ignoranthack.me> wrote: >> On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 21:30 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> does anybody know where the effort to port GluserFS to FreeBSD went? >>> >>> There’s this (very) outdated wiki-page: >>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/GlusterFS >>> >>> and there’s the SoC project: >>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2013/GlusterFSport >>> >>> But nothing seems to have happened after it was finished. >> >> The port made decent progress over the GSOC period, but no, it never >> gained any traction to end up in the ports collection. >> >> > > That is very unfortunate. > > > >> not to hijack the thread but, glusters ancient, use riak-cs, or swift, or port leofs >> >> > > Currently, the unavailability of GlusterFS in FreeBSD (vs. the availability in Linux) is sort of a deal-breaker for some projects here. > > There are, regrettably, a large number of legacy applications the rely on a traditional filesystem. > An equally large number of customers continue to rely on these same applications, for the foreseeable future (and they pay us to run the stuff). > Traditionally, I would have just suggested a ZFS NFS fileserver - but it adds a single point of failure, manual failover with ZFS sends/HAST etc. hey check out panzura's product.. (disclaimer: I work there) > > GlusterFS would eliminate this (in situations where the customer needs a number of servers anyway). > > I guess, it won’t happen until somebody is paid to do it (SoC sort of proofed that) - directly or indirectly. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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