What happened with the GlusterFS port?

[Outback Dingo]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 4/19/14, 4:43 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote:
>
>> Am 18.04.2014 um 21:51 schrieb Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno at ignoranthack.me>
>>> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 21:30 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> does anybody know where the effort to port GluserFS to FreeBSD went?
>>>>
>>>> There’s this (very) outdated wiki-page:
>>>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/GlusterFS
>>>>
>>>> and there’s the SoC project:
>>>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2013/GlusterFSport
>>>>
>>>> But nothing seems to have happened after it was finished.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The port made decent progress over the GSOC period, but no, it never
>>> gained any traction to end up in the ports collection.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> That is very unfortunate.
>>
>>
>>
>>  not to hijack the thread but, glusters ancient, use riak-cs, or swift,
>>> or port leofs
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Currently, the unavailability of GlusterFS in FreeBSD (vs. the
>> availability in Linux) is sort of a deal-breaker for some projects here.
>>
>> There are, regrettably, a large number of legacy applications the rely on
>> a traditional filesystem.
>> An equally large number of customers continue to rely on these same
>> applications, for the foreseeable future (and they pay us to run the stuff).
>> Traditionally, I would have just suggested a ZFS NFS fileserver - but it
>> adds a single point of failure, manual failover with ZFS sends/HAST etc.
>>
>
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>
>>
>>
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> GlusterFS would eliminate this (in situations where the customer needs a
>> number of servers anyway).
>>
>> I guess, it won’t happen until somebody is paid to do it (SoC sort of
>> proofed that) - directly or indirectly.
>>
>>
>>
>>




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