[Gluster-devel] Gluster Coreutils

chris holcombe chris.holcombe at canonical.com
Fri Jun 12 17:46:28 UTC 2015


Craig,

I was actually planning on building the same tool set.  I would like to 
work with you also on this if that's ok.

-Chris

On 06/12/2015 10:43 AM, Jeff Darcy wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> This summer I am an intern at Facebook working on the Gluster team. Part of
>> my project for the summer includes developing a set of coreutils that
>> utilizes the Gluster C API natively.
>>
>> This project is similar in nature to the NFS coreutils that some of you may
>> have heard about from the other Facebook engineers at the Gluster summit
>> recently. I just wanted to reach out to the Gluster community to gather
>> ideas, potential features, feedback, and direction.
>>
>> The initial set of utilities that I am developing includes the following:
>>
>> * cat
>> * mkdir
>> * put (read from stdin and write to a file)
>> * mv
>> * ls
>> * rm
>> * tail
>>
>> Again, any feedback will be welcome.
> Hi, Craig, and welcome to the project.  :)
>
> There seems to be some overlap with a proposal Ragahavendra Talur sent out
> a couple of days ago.
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yuRLRbdccx_0V0UDAxqWbz4g983q5inuINHgM1YO040/edit?usp=sharing
>
> This seems like an excellent opportunity to collaborate.  Ideally, I think
> it would be useful to have both an FTP-client-like "shell" and a set of
> standalone "one shot" commands, based on as much common code as possible.
>
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