[Gluster-devel] Gluster Coreutils

[chris holcombe]

Maybe we could write these in C and setup python bindings for them. 
Thoughts?  I'm down with writing them in C.  I could use more practice.

On 06/14/2015 02:36 PM, Joe Julian wrote:
> I would prefer python.
>
> On 06/14/2015 11:18 AM, Niels de Vos wrote:
>> 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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