[Gluster-devel] Gluster Coreutils

Sun Jun 14 21:49:07 UTC 2015

I've already started writing the utilities in C per my internship project. I'll push these up when ready (most probably sometime this week) as a POC. 

Maybe then we can look into implementing with Python?

Craig

> On Jun 14, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Joe Julian <joe at julianfamily.org> wrote:
> 
> I was thinking the other way around. Write it in python then optimize if it's necessary.
>> On 06/14/2015 02:45 PM, chris holcombe wrote:
>> 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.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 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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