On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 09:51 +0530, Anand Avati wrote: > > > I wish I could experience a bug. (^; > I'm unable to even build the software on Solaris 10 Sparc. > > We just had commits yesterday in the 1.4.x branch to fix build issues > on Solaris. Though that thread has not been responded actively on the > mailing list, the issue sure is being addressed. Lack of a solaris > machine in our labs is partially the reason for the delay. Thanks for the details. I'll figure out how to grab a source snapshot. What would be the minimum solaris machine required to meet the need? > > I've seen a lot of software in production environments but > when > a product has issues just compiling we usually don't put it on > our short-list of potential solutions. > > I had some hope when I first found gluster and saw there was > activity. But it seems with the commercial leaning of the > product > that priorities are shifting. I've seen it in lots of other > projects. Just an observation, not making a morality or ethic > call. > > As a member of the development team, I would like to assure you that > there has been no commercial leaning of the product. GlusterFS has > been a GPL (v3) project and will continue to remain so. We value the > feedback and bug reports from the community just as much as from > anybody else, if not more. Lot of the features and decisions already > have been driven by the community requirements. Thanks avati, glad to hear this. I was pleasantly surprised when I found gluster recently. But as with anything very skeptical if the claims match the actual experience with the product. This applies to commercial-closed-source as well as opensource. The individual use case testimonials are good too: http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Who's_using_GlusterFS > > avati > > >
