Hmmmm. Keep me CCed, please, because for a couple last months I do not follow GlusterFS development… On pátek 3. března 2017 21:50:07 CET Niels de Vos wrote: > At the moment we have three top-level interfaces to maintain in Gluster, > these are FUSE, Gluster/NFS and gfapi. If any work is needed to support > new options, FOPs or other functionalities, we mostly have to do the > work 3x. Often one of the interfaces gets forgotten, or does not need > the new feature immediately (backlog++). This is bothering me every now > and then, specially when bugs get introduced and need to get fixed in > different ways for these three interfaced. > > One of my main goals is to reduce the code duplication, and move > everything to gfapi. We are on a good way to use NFS-Ganesha instead of > Gluster/NFS already. In a similar approach, I would love to see > deprecating our xlators/mount sources[0], and have it replaced by > xglfs[1] from Oleksandr. > > Having the FUSE mount binaries provided by a separate project should > make it easier to implement things like subdirectory mounts (Samba and > NFS-Ganesha already do this in some form through gfapi). > > xglfs is not packaged in any distribution yet, this allows us to change > the current commandline interface to something we deem more suitable (if > so). > > I would like to get some opinions from others, and if there are no > absolute objections, we can work out a plan to make xglfs an alternative > to the fuse-bridge and eventually replace it. > > Thanks, > Niels > > > 0. https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/tree/master/xlators/mount > 1. https://github.com/gluster/xglfs _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
