On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:31 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 09:16:54AM +0530, Nigel Babu wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 06:07:41PM +0530, Nithya Balachandran wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I recently debugged a problem [1] where linkfiles were not created properly >> > a gluster volume created using bricks running UFS . Whenever a linkfile was >> > created, the sticky bit was not set on it causing the same file to be >> > listed twice. >> > >> > From https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chmod&sektion=2 >> > >> > The FreeBSD VM system totally ignores the sticky bit (S_ISVTX) for >> > executables. On UFS-based file systems (FFS, LFS) the sticky bit may only >> > be set upon directories. >> > >> > Based on this I do not think we can support UFS bricks for gluster volumes. >> > However, I have not worked with FreeBSD so I would like folks who have to >> > let me know if this is correct or if there is something I am missing. >> > >> > I was able to force the sticky bit on a file using a testfile attached to >> > [1] but it is not straightforward and I am reluctant to propose this. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Nithya >> > >> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176011 >> >> Giving this thread a signal boost. We should think about this if we're going to >> continue to support *BSD. >> >> Emmanuel, I know you work on NetBSD, but do you have thoughts to add here? > > We did get some regular contributions to have Gluster function on > FreeBSD, but they seem to be more sporadic now. If nobody steps up, I > would suggest to keep compiling on FreeBSD, but nothing more. Maybe at a > later time someone shows more interest. > > NetBSD on the other hand already runs some of the regression tests. And > it seems to hit valid problems in the code that we for whatever lucky > reason do not hit (yet?) on Linux. I see some value in the NetBSD > environment, and if the infra team with help from Manu can keep it > up-to-date it would be good to have it running. +1 to this approach regarding BSDs. -Vijay _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
