hey joe, recived the legal issues loud and clear - all very good points. hope these issues will become clarified in due course. putting the legal issues aside - still v keen to hear your and others thoughts about ZFS&L2ARC being a good platform for glusterfs. that fast SSD tier sounds like a perfect compliment to glusters slow small file performance. regards, paul On 29 September 2011 17:48, Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com>wrote: > On 09/29/2011 12:38 PM, paul simpson wrote: > >> been reading this thread - quite fascinating. >> >> zfsonlinux + gluster looks like an intriguing combination. i'm >> interested in your findings to date; specifically would the zfs L2ARC >> (with SSDs) speed up underlying gluster operations? it sounds like it >> could be a potent mix. >> > > Just don't minimize the legal risk issue. Its very hard for a vendor to > ship/support this due to the potential risk. Its arguably hard for a user > to deploy zfs on linux due to the risk, unless they had a way to argue that > they are not violating licensing (can't intermix GPL and CDDL and > ship/support it) for commercial purposes. > > Lots of folks can't claim the type of cover that a national lab can claim > (researching storage models). You have to decide if the risk is worth it. > > If you were to do this, I'd suggest going the Illumos/OpenIndiana or BSD > route. Yeah, work still needs to be done to get Gluster to build there, but > the licensing is on firmer ground (hard to claim that an "open source" > license such as CDDL does not mean what it says). > > Understand where you stand first. Speak to a lawyer type first. Make sure > you won't have issues. > > And do remember, that while Oracle and Netapp have (for the moment) > de-escalated hostilities, Oracle did not provide indemnity to non-Oracle > customers. So Netapp (and others) *can* resume their actions. A question > was asked why not go after Nexenta versus others. Simple. There are many > others (e.g. more potential licensing/legal fees) as compared to a single > Nexenta. Its arguably less about rights as it is revenue from legal action. > But that stuff does happen ... > > Oracle is probably the only one whom can ship ZFS anything safely. And, > I'd guess that they are perfectly happy with that situation. > > >> regards, >> >> -paul >> > > > -- > Joseph Landman, Ph.D > Founder and CEO > Scalable Informatics Inc. > email: landman at scalableinformatics.**com <landman at scalableinformatics.com> > web : http://scalableinformatics.com > http://scalableinformatics.**com/sicluster<http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster> > phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 > fax : +1 866 888 3112 > cell : +1 734 612 4615 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110929/6f01eba6/attachment-0001.htm>
