[Gluster-devel] Glusterfs client and fuse mount working on OS X 10.9

[Dennis Schafroth]

On 29 Mar 2014, at 11:13 , Harshavardhana <harsha at harshavardhana.net> wrote:

> Hi Dennis,
> 
> I cloned your repo and made a bunch of fixes -
> https://forge.gluster.org/~y4m4/glusterfs-core/y4m4s-osx-glusterfs
> 
> I think the issue of OSXFUSE exists to some extent, if OSXFUSE  is not
> performing well enough to Linux FUSE standards, i would bet it
> wouldn't be worth to get the client porting done, with the advent of
> gfapi, samba vfs plugin and also NFS ganesha project, all these will
> work out of the box. I am just asking myself if there is a larger need
> for Native FUSE support.

I wasn’t aware of the other project that would make it possible to use OS X as clients. 

> 
> If at all needed then as a first step one or more of the gluster
> community and devels should become active contributor to OSXFUSE
> project, so that we can guarantee a consistent stability across OSX
> native client too.

I was thinking in the same directions. I was guessing (without be an FUSE expert) that the newer APIs was there for performance. 

> 
> It is still debatable, let me know your views about having full fledged client.

I am not religious about getting FUSE to work if there are better/faster ways. 

> 
> I have made changes to remove libspl dependency for now, as i
> implemented most of the necessary functions in
> libglusterfs/src/syscall.c - if more portability is needed we should

Got around to a similar solution, where I only need one  file. 

> be using "gnulib".

I think we are two that have tried that route, and gnulib macros seems incompatible with gluster way of doing it. 

cheers, 
:-Denis