[Gluster-devel] Gluster Coreutils

[Niels de Vos]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 06:45:45PM +0530, M S Vishwanath Bhat wrote:
> On 12 June 2015 at 23:59, chris holcombe <chris.holcombe at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah I have this repo but it's basically empty:
> > https://github.com/cholcombe973/GlusterUtils
> 
> 
> AFAIK the plan is to collaborate through a git repo in github.com/gluster
> account. But anything that works should be good...
> 
> And the choice of language seems to be python.

Depending on the target systems, Python may not be suitable. There are
cloud deployments that do not have Python installed. I think that even
includes the minimal cloud images Fedora and CentOS provide. IMHO would
be nice to be able to support those systems too, without pulling in too
many dependencies.

But, I'll leave it up to the people writing the code ;-)

Cheers,
Niels

> 
> Best Regards,
> Vishwanath
> 
> >
> >
> > On 06/12/2015 11:27 AM, Craig Cabrey wrote:
> >
> >> Chris,
> >>
> >> That sounds good to me.
> >>
> >> I already have started on implementation, just to get familiar with the
> >> codebase and GFAPI.
> >>
> >> Is there a public repo that we can use for collaboration?
> >>
> >> Craig
> >>
> >>  On Jun 12, 2015, at 10:46 AM, chris holcombe <
> >>> chris.holcombe at canonical.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yuRLRbdccx_0V0UDAxqWbz4g983q5inuINHgM1YO040/edit?usp%3Dsharing&k=ZVNjlDMF0FElm4dQtryO4A%3D%3D%0A&r=ThH6JMKaB%2Fxgkh9d2jPjehcdps8B69L0q04jdBbZvX4%3D%0A&m=86la5Xg7nlxAzIR6E5c2v2SgQSd6VssYzB%2BklM3wf%2BI%3D%0A&s=8d55bb5770b8ed1d683a6908a05af32b79289735c537c660252fcaa7c690e162
> >>>>
> >>>> 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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