From owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Fri Dec 4 11:13:01 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D06A4009A for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 11:13:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@digiware.nl) Received: from smtp.digiware.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:4cb8:90:ffff::3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 18C2D1B65 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 11:13:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@digiware.nl) Received: from rack1.digiware.nl (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71298153416; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 12:12:55 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digiware.nl Received: from smtp.digiware.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by rack1.digiware.nl (rack1.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LdewbwnMFCwu; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 12:12:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from [IPv6:2001:4cb8:3:1:64aa:8bd1:11fd:867b] (unknown [IPv6:2001:4cb8:3:1:64aa:8bd1:11fd:867b]) by smtp.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45BCD153413; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 12:12:53 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: CEPH + FreeBSD To: Jordan Hubbard , Rakshith Venkatesh References: Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org From: Willem Jan Withagen Organization: Digiware Management b.v. Message-ID: <5661752C.1090200@digiware.nl> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 12:12:44 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:13:01 -0000 On 3-9-2015 08:51, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > >> On Sep 2, 2015, at 10:44 PM, Rakshith Venkatesh >> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply Mike. Yeah, i think its time for Ceph folks to >> take this up. > > Not to rain on your parade, but the last time I checked, there was no > interest on that side. Their needs are adequately served by Linux, > and I got the feeling that they felt more than a little burned by the > drive-by FreeBSD port that never actually produced a working FreeBSD > port but did cruft their code up with lots of pointless #ifdef BSD > constructs. > > If you or anyone else really wants to move that ball forward, you’re > going to have to volunteer to do the port yourself and also agree to > maintain it for, I dunno, at least 20 years so they don’t feel like > they’re getting into that same situation again. :-) Well Thusfar the Ceph people are more than willing to accept patches. In the tree are already diffs and WIPs for: freebsd, osx, AIX, solaris and it sounds like that the AIX port is working. Also there have been a lot of attempts to get FreeBSD up and running, but mostly it dies because the "porter" needs to start doing different things. Talking to Sage Weill, he said that one of the main things to keep FreeBSD-Ceph up and running, is the possibility to actually run the automated builds and tests on a FreeBSD system. So that is something I/we need to think about. --WjW