CEPH + FreeBSD

[Mike Carlson]

Interestingly enough, Sage Weil did an AMA on reddit yesterday.

His response to FreeBSD support was not negative, they accept patches and
could probably use help with unit testing on FreeBSD:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3jdnnd/i_am_sage_weil_lead_architect_and_cocreator_of/cuodnwv

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> >
> > > On Sep 2, 2015, at 10:44 PM, Rakshith Venkatesh <vrock28 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reply Mike. Yeah, i think its time for Ceph folks to
> take
> > > this up.
> >
> > Not to rain on your parade, but the last time I checked, there was no
> > interest on that side.  Their needs are adequately served by Linux, and I
> > got the feeling that they felt more than a little burned by the drive-by
> > FreeBSD port that never actually produced a working FreeBSD port but did
> > cruft their code up with lots of pointless #ifdef BSD constructs.
> >
> > If you or anyone else really wants to move that ball forward, you’re
> going to
> > have to volunteer to do the port yourself and also agree to maintain it
> for,
> > I dunno, at least 20 years so they don’t feel like they’re getting into
> that
> > same situation again. :-)
> >
> Slightly off topic but, btw, there is a port of GLusterFS and those folks
> do seem
> interested in seeing it brought "up to speed". I am not sure how mature it
> is at
> this point, but it has been known to build on amd64. (I don't have an
> amd64 machine,
> so I haven't gotten around to building/testing it, but I do plan to try
> and use
> it as a basis for a pNFS server, if I can figure out how to get the FH
> info out of it.
> I'm working on that;-)
>
> rick
>
> > Good luck,
> >
> > - Jordan
> >
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