[Gluster-devel] NetBSD portability (was Re: NetBSD tests not running to completion)

[Jeff Darcy]

> > I am not that big a fan of portable software development at all- more
> > so  for system software.
> 
> This can be discussed for server side, but for client side, making
> glusterfs linux-only would make it a bit irrelevant. Don't you want to
> build universal storage?

Getting a bit philosophical here, so I'm splitting this off from the previous topic.

As long as NFS and SMB clients can access our storage, and we have GFAPI as well, the additional value of a native (e.g. FUSE) client is actually rather small.  I personally think it's still a better way to do things on Linux where it's already well supported, but it's a bit harder to make the same argument on OSes where our dependencies are themselves in worse shape.