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On Nov 10, 2007 10:32 PM, 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).
>
>


It uses FUSE only for the client. The server is just a normal user
space daemon. (although obviously it is not written with portability
in mind)