Hi, The Openstack Swift community has gone through the same problem (allowing pluggable backends) when it implemented EC in Swift. They came up with this generic EC library: https://github.com/openstack/liberasurecode It currently supports 6 EC backends. Hope this helps. -Prashanth Pai ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Niels de Vos" <ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Ashish Pandey" <aspandey@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Xavier Hernandez" > <xhernandez@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Per Simonsen" <per.simonsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, 2 March, 2017 12:28:46 PM > Subject: Pluggable interface for erasure coding? > > Hi guys, > > I think this is a topic/question that has come up before, but I can not > find any references or feature requests related to it. Because there are > different libraries for Erasure Coding, it would be interesting to be > able to select alternatives to the bundled implementation that Gluster > has. Are there any plans to make the current Erasure Coding > implementation more pluggable? Would this be a possible feature request, > or would it require a major rewrite of the current interface? > > Here at FAST [0] I have briefly spoken to Per Simonsen from MemoScale > [1]. This company offers a (proprietary) library for Erasure Coding, > optimized for different architectures, and with some unique(?) features > for recovering a failed fragment/disk. If Gluster allows alternative > implementations for the encoding, it would help organisations and > researchers to get results of their work in a distributed filesystem. > And with that, spread the word about how easy to adapt and extend > Gluster is :-) > > Thanks, > Niels > > > 0. https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast17 > 1. https://memoscale.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
