[Gluster-devel] [RFC] Reducing maintenance burden and moving fuse support to an external project

[Oleksandr Natalenko]

Hmmmm.

Keep me CCed, please, because for a couple last months I do not follow 
GlusterFS development…

On pátek 3. března 2017 21:50:07 CET Niels de Vos wrote:
> At the moment we have three top-level interfaces to maintain in Gluster,
> these are FUSE, Gluster/NFS and gfapi. If any work is needed to support
> new options, FOPs or other functionalities, we mostly have to do the
> work 3x. Often one of the interfaces gets forgotten, or does not need
> the new feature immediately (backlog++). This is bothering me every now
> and then, specially when bugs get introduced and need to get fixed in
> different ways for these three interfaced.
> 
> One of my main goals is to reduce the code duplication, and move
> everything to gfapi. We are on a good way to use NFS-Ganesha instead of
> Gluster/NFS already. In a similar approach, I would love to see
> deprecating our xlators/mount sources[0], and have it replaced by
> xglfs[1] from Oleksandr.
> 
> Having the FUSE mount binaries provided by a separate project should
> make it easier to implement things like subdirectory mounts (Samba and
> NFS-Ganesha already do this in some form through gfapi).
> 
> xglfs is not packaged in any distribution yet, this allows us to change
> the current commandline interface to something we deem more suitable (if
> so).
> 
> I would like to get some opinions from others, and if there are no
> absolute objections, we can work out a plan to make xglfs an alternative
> to the fuse-bridge and eventually replace it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Niels
> 
> 
> 0. https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/tree/master/xlators/mount
> 1. https://github.com/gluster/xglfs