----- Original Message ----- > From: "XoD" <xoddark@xxxxxxxxx> > To: gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, 1 June, 2017 8:08:08 PM > Subject: Gluster API out of Unix environment > > Hello, in my company we are looking for a most efficient solution to > distribute a lot of small files, for a lot of clients. > > We are considering using Glusterfs for this (Or Ceph) as our server > infrastructure. > On the client side we want to access data as object directly from the > application. > Our applications will not run in an Unix environment (Windows among others). > But unfortunately the Gluster API (Or Ceph API) depends on Unix technologies > and headers. > > So to summarize our needs for the API are : > - put new files on a volume > - read files on the volume > - remove files on the volume > We do not need to update any files after the first write. > > For the moment, here is our current investigation status: > We have tried to build the api (libglusterfs) in a Msys/Mingw environment, > but all dependencies are not available. > We are considering to modify libglusterfs to replace Unix dependencies, but > it's seems a lot of work. > We are considering to reimplement the client library, but I haven't found > documentation about the communication protocol of libglusterfs api. > We are also considering to create a new (simpler) API, possibly based on > http, but we need to know how implement the server part. You can put and get files as objects using gluster-swift project. This happens over HTTP protocol with requests and responses conforming to Swift or S3 API. https://github.com/gluster/gluster-swift > > Without any knowledge of the internal Gluster’s functionality it's not easy, > and I haven't found any documentation about it. > > So here are my questions: > Does anybody have advices/warnings about how we can achieve any of the afore > mentioned ports ? > Or know any open source library project to access to Gluster files/objects > from (at least) a Windows application. > > Thank you > > _______________________________________________ > 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
