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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:53:56 -0400
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd@hub.org>
To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
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- --On Saturday, November 10, 2007 21:32:36 +0100 Ivan Voras
<ivoras@freebsd.org> 
wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>> Anyone play with this?  <http://www.gluster.org>
>>
>> It says it runs under FreeBSD, but am curious if anyone is using it 'in
>> production' and how well it works ...
>
> As far as I can see it uses FUSE for the file system driver, and when I
> last looked at it (at least our version of...) FUSE doesn't support file
> locking (flock(2), etc., not kernel locking), so at best it would be of
> limited use (e.g. no databases, mbox mailboxes, etc. on it).

Actually, FAQ 'How is locking handled?'

NOTE: GlusterFS only supports fcntl() locks, as FUSE itself doesn't support 
flock() calls.


>



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