On 01/07/2016 08:47 AM, Jeff Darcy wrote: >>> I am not that big a fan of portable software development at all- more >>> so for system software. >> >> This can be discussed for server side, but for client side, making >> glusterfs linux-only would make it a bit irrelevant. Don't you want to >> build universal storage? > > Getting a bit philosophical here, so I'm splitting this off from the previous topic. > > As long as NFS and SMB clients can access our storage, and we have GFAPI as well, the additional value of a native (e.g. FUSE) client is actually rather small. I personally think it's still a better way to do things on Linux where it's already well supported, but it's a bit harder to make the same argument on OSes where our dependencies are themselves in worse shape. I was in the middle of composing a reply along pretty much the same lines when I saw Jeff's reply land in my inbox. We are migrating from gnfs to NFS-Ganesha for NFS; NFS-Ganesha uses GFAPI. If Samba isn't already using a GFAPI-based VFS, it will be soon. FUSE isn't the best answer, IMO, to the "universal storage" question. We should really be focusing on making sure GFAPI, NFS-Ganesha, and Samba remain portable across multiple platforms. IMO. -- Kaleb _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
