[Gluster-devel] Gluster and FreeBSD

[Niels de Vos]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 09:16:54AM +0530, Nigel Babu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 06:07:41PM +0530, Nithya Balachandran wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently debugged a problem [1] where linkfiles were not created properly
> > a gluster volume created using bricks running UFS . Whenever a linkfile was
> > created, the sticky bit was not set on it causing the same file to be
> > listed twice.
> >
> > From  https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chmod&sektion=2
> >
> > The FreeBSD VM system totally ignores the sticky bit (S_ISVTX) for
> > executables. On UFS-based file systems (FFS, LFS) the sticky bit may only
> > be set upon directories.
> >
> > Based on this I do not think we can support UFS bricks for gluster volumes.
> > However, I have not worked with FreeBSD so I would like folks who have to
> > let me know if this is correct or if there is something I am missing.
> >
> > I was able to force the sticky bit on a file using a testfile attached to
> > [1] but it is not straightforward and I am reluctant to propose this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nithya
> >
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176011
> 
> Giving this thread a signal boost. We should think about this if we're going to
> continue to support *BSD.
> 
> Emmanuel, I know you work on NetBSD, but do you have thoughts to add here?

We did get some regular contributions to have Gluster function on
FreeBSD, but they seem to be more sporadic now. If nobody steps up, I
would suggest to keep compiling on FreeBSD, but nothing more. Maybe at a
later time someone shows more interest.

NetBSD on the other hand already runs some of the regression tests. And
it seems to hit valid problems in the code that we for whatever lucky
reason do not hit (yet?) on Linux. I see some value in the NetBSD
environment, and if the infra team with help from Manu can keep it
up-to-date it would be good to have it running.

Niels
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