From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 01:49:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038D1106566B for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:49:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ports@christianserving.org) Received: from zion.christianserving.org (zion.christianserving.org [75.149.96.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43158FC15 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:49:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ports@christianserving.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.christianserving.org [127.0.0.1]) by zion.christianserving.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D8423445A; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:27:40 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at christianserving.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.399 tagged_above=-9999 required=6 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599] autolearn=ham Received: from mm-riggsj.local (unknown [10.1.10.34]) by zion.christianserving.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:27:39 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <499F595B.5090205@christianserving.org> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:31:07 -0600 From: Jim Riggs Organization: Christian Serving, L.L.C. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081204 Thunderbird/3.0b1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David N References: <8B306787-ACFE-4F9C-BF06-42C40615F7EB@exit2shell.com> <0E1261E4B639D74DB24946A78266B1CF030188D5@NUMEVP04.na.imtn.com> <4d7dd86f0902200940h3cacc430v5e2724c0c63d66d2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4d7dd86f0902200940h3cacc430v5e2724c0c63d66d2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Steven Kreuzer , "Pathiakis, Paul" Subject: Re: Port Request: gluster X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:49:47 -0000 On 02/20/2009 11:40, David N wrote: > 2009/2/21 Pathiakis, Paul: >> Steven, >> >> I'm going to start testing it in a pre-production environment. It seems >> so straightforward, integrates with ZFS, it has simple configuration >> files, all around, I'm hoping that it garners more >> clustering/replication for FreeBSD. Many of the other solutions are >> quite tedious and setup complexity is quite annoying. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steven Kreuzer [mailto:steven@hudson-trading.com] On Behalf Of >> Steven Kreuzer >> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:30 AM >> To: Pathiakis, Paul >> Cc: ports@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Port Request: gluster >> >> >> On Feb 20, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Pathiakis, Paul wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> I'd like to request that the gluster clustering/filesystem software be >>> ported and supported. This looks to be a very simple, straightforward >>> and viable clustering solution which FreeBSD has always lacked. >> This looks like a very interesting project. I might be able to take >> some time >> over the weekend and create a port for this. >> >> Out of curiosity, have you been using it in production? If so, can you >> describe your setup >> and your experience with it? >> >> Steven Kreuzer >> http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer >> > Looks promising > http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_on_BSD Several weeks ago I actually created a port for glusterfs as I was hoping to implement it myself. I'll have to see if I saved any of my work. I actually had a working port, but I may have dumped it. I will be happy to submit it if I can find it. I just don't know that I will be able to maintain it. A couple of notes from what I found: 1. It does not yet integrate with FreeBSD's implementation of ZFS (at least not in 7.x) due to the lack of ACL support. You can use it with a UFS partition or a UFS zvol. (Using a zvol requires a patch pjd@ recommended for performance improvements.) 2. Performance in my setup was not very good over 2x1Gb LAGG. It might be better over a faster, dedicated channel of some type. - Jim