>>> On 2013/01/08 at 10:08, Gregory Farnum <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I think this also depends on the scope of the effort - what portions of
ceph are ported to Windows. I have to confess that I do not see a lot
of value in porting the OSD, MDS, and MON daemons to Windows. This just
doesn't make a lot of sense - if you're setting aside machines
specifically for a distributed filesystem, why not just run Linux? The
piece that I can see being useful in a Windows port is actually just the
filesystem client. I have cases where it would actually be really,
really nice to be able to mount my ceph filesystem natively on
Windows-based machines. I think this type of effort is much more
manageable (warning: that's the ignorant opinion of an IT manager, not a
skilled developer ;-) - it seems that porting the FUSE Ceph client over
to something like Dokan (user mode filesystem on Windows, FUSE
look-alike) might be a feasible task. I do understand that InkTank is
more interested in building out the existing system on the existing
platforms, but Cesar, Dino, if you're interested in a Windows port of
the ceph client, porting the FUSE client over to Dokan might be a good
place to start.
-Nick
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