Kaleb KEITHLEY <kkeithle@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. We've been using a vfs based on gfapi since before we starting working on Ganesha ;). -Ira _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
