What happened with the GlusterFS port?

[Rainer Duffner]

Am 18.04.2014 um 21:51 schrieb Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com>:

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> 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 There’s this (very) outdated wiki-page: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.
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> 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
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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.

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.