[Gluster-users] Writing a GlusterFS Translator - Any Documentation about this?

[Jeff Darcy]

On 12/18/2010 06:20 PM, Erik Muttersbach wrote:
> I would like to write a custom GlusterFS Translator for file
> encryption with AES. Besides this rather rare description:
> http://europe.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_Contributors_FAQ,
> is there any other documentation on writing a custom Translator?

I don't know of anything official (wish I did) but here are some notes I 
wrote up a while ago when I started writing translators myself.  Beware: 
while it looks like most of this is still applicable, this was written 
pre-3.0 so some of the details might have changed.  Updates and 
additions are certainly most welcome.  In particular, I need to add some 
stuff about iobrefs and inode-number translations, which seem to affect 
almost all translators, and on how to modify your builds for easy 
debugging etc.

Other than that, learning to write a translator is mostly a matter of 
looking at some of the simpler current ones and following their example. 
  Stay away from AFR and DHT; the basics are obscured in those by lots 
of domain-specific complexity.  Many of the deprecated translators, such 
as map/filter/path-convertor, have actually been among the most useful 
as learning tools.  You might also find some of my own CloudFS[1] 
translators useful as examples or sources of ideas.  Good luck, and 
welcome to the club.

[1] http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=CloudFS.git