Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:35:21 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> Cc: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pNFS server Plan B Message-ID: <0CB465F9-B819-4DA7-969C-690A02BEB66E@ixsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <16d38847-f515-f532-1300-d2843005999e@digiware.nl> References: <1524639039.147096032.1465856925174.JavaMail.zimbra@uoguelph.ca> <D20C793E-A2FD-49F3-AD88-7C2FED5E7715@ixsystems.com> <16d38847-f515-f532-1300-d2843005999e@digiware.nl>
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> On Jun 22, 2016, at 1:56 AM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> = wrote: >=20 > In the spare time I have left, I'm trying to get a lot of small fixes > into the ceph tree to get it actually compiling, testing, and running = on > FreeBSD. But Ceph is a lot of code, and since a lot of people are > working on it, the number of code changes are big. Hi Willem, Yes, I read your paper on the porting effort! I also took a look at porting ceph myself, about 2 years ago, and = rapidly concluded that it wasn=E2=80=99t a small / trivial effort by any = means and would require a strong justification in terms of ceph=E2=80=99s = feature set over glusterfs / moose / OpenAFS / RiakCS / etc. Since = that time, there=E2=80=99s been customer interest but nothing truly = =E2=80=9Cstrong=E2=80=9D per-se. My attraction to ceph remains centered = around at least these 4 things: 1. Distributed Object store with S3-compatible ReST API 2. Interoperates with Openstack via Swift compatibility 3. Block storage (RADOS) - possibly useful for iSCSI and other block = storage requirements 4. Filesystem interface Is there anything we can do to help? Do the CEPH folks seem receptive = to actually having a =E2=80=9CTier 1=E2=80=9D FreeBSD port? I know that = stas@ did an early almost-port awhile back, but it never reached = fruition and my feeling was that they (ceph) might be a little gun-shy = about seeing another port that might wind up in the same place, crufting = up their code base to no purpose. Do you have any initial impressions = about that? I=E2=80=99ve never talked to any of the 3 principle guys = working on the project and this is pure guesswork on my part. - Jordan
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