On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Cesar Mello <cmello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been playing with ceph and reading the docs/thesis the last > couple of nights just to learn something during my vacation. I was not > expecting to find such an awesome and state of the art project. > Congratulations for the great work! > > Please I would like to know if a Windows port is imagined for the > future or if that is a dead-end. By Windows port I mean an abstraction > layer for hardware/sockets/threading/etc and building with Visual C++ > 2012 Express. And then have this state of the art object storage > cluster running on Windows nodes too. This is not super-likely (although it's not impossible either). Inktank is a long way from doing the necessary development for this — we don't have any Windows developers on staff. External contributors who are interested in doing the work themselves would certainly get some support in doing so, but I can't even begin to estimate the size of the project that would be required. Would a simple abstraction layer be able to provide the right interface with anything approaching acceptable performance? I really don't know. On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Dino Yancey <dino2gnt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am also curious if a Windows port, specifically the client-side, is > on the roadmap. This is somewhat more likely than porting the servers, but again we at Inktank don't currently have the expertise necessary. It'd be a lot easier if there were a FUSE for Windows; that's how we'll be getting an OS X client. -Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
