Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:11:10 +0200 From: "Niki Denev" <ndenev@gmail.com> To: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gclusterfs ... Message-ID: <2e77fc10711101511r70dce5cbqf00cee53459458ad@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <fh54hi$nsd$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <1E865507A930162B67FB75DE@ganymede.hub.org> <fh54hi$nsd$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Nov 10, 2007 10:32 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > Anyone play with this? <http://www.gluster.org>; > > > > It says it runs under FreeBSD, but am curious if anyone is using it 'in > > production' and how well it works ... > > As far as I can see it uses FUSE for the file system driver, and when I > last looked at it (at least our version of...) FUSE doesn't support file > locking (flock(2), etc., not kernel locking), so at best it would be of > limited use (e.g. no databases, mbox mailboxes, etc. on it). > > It uses FUSE only for the client. The server is just a normal user space daemon. (although obviously it is not written with portability in mind)
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