[Gluster-devel] Gluster Coreutils

chris holcombe chris.holcombe at canonical.com
Sun Jun 14 21:59:05 UTC 2015


Do you want to split up who does what utility?  I could pick off some 
easier ones like mv or rm or something.
I imagine there will be some common functions we will want to share 
between them.  We can split things out as we go.  No big deal

On 06/14/2015 02:49 PM, Craig Cabrey wrote:
> 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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