What happened with the GlusterFS port?

[Julian Elischer]

On 4/19/14, 4:43 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> 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,
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>>> does anybody know where the effort to port GluserFS to FreeBSD went?
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>>> There’s this (very) outdated wiki-page:
>>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/GlusterFS
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>>> 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.
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> That is very unfortunate.
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>> 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.
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> 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.

hey check out panzura's product..  (disclaimer: I work there)
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> GlusterFS would eliminate this (in situations where the customer needs a number of servers anyway).
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> 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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