Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:27:35 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@turbofuzz.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD support being added to GlusterFS Message-ID: <AB0CB58A-A93E-4DDA-8060-A2B183BBB6FD@turbofuzz.com> In-Reply-To: <20140627070411.GI24440@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <C647EDA1-EA93-4A66-B59D-3B5F959DC0E0@gluster.org> <6ADBB2BF-C7E8-4050-9278-2565A63D2EA8@gluster.org> <20140627070411.GI24440@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On Jun 27, 2014, at 12:04 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > For you information here is my version: > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/glusterfs.diff > > It is just missing the license bits > > if everyone here agrees I'll commit :) Seems reasonable. Question from my own "questions to be asked about glusterfs" pile: Paths. I notice that glusterd requires quite a few path not in the standard hierarchy for /usr/local (or any value of ${prefix}) that will cause it to simply fall over upon first invocation. To wit: /var/lib/glusterd (nothing in FreeBSD uses /var/lib at all - /var/db, /var/run and /var/tmp are more canonical locations, depending on what you [the service] are trying to do). In fact, ${prefix}/var seems to be generally avoided by most things in ports. /usr/local/var/log is highly atypical, for example. This also creates problems for us in FreeNAS since our root filesystem is read-only by default, and we simply make parts of /var (the root /var) r/w to accommodate things wanting to write into /var/log, /var/tmp/, /var/run and so on. I would hope that the port could also be configured to run as a system component, or at least obey a more predictable ${prefix} hierarchy so that we could map things suitably r/w into the location(s) that glusterfs needs to scribble on at runtime. I was going to write all of this up in a more exhaustive email but I got side-tracked by other projects. :) - Jordan
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