[Gluster-users] How to compile gluster 3.4 on Mac OS X 10.8.4?

[Justin Clift]

On 13/03/2014, at 9:56 PM, Carlos Capriotti wrote:
> Denis:
> 
> Out of curiosity, and never meaning to discourage you, but gluster, deep inside, is a server-side application, designed to manage multiple volume spans. You get the cluster stuff, of course.
> 
> What would be the objective of coding Gluster on Mac OS, if Apple no longer sells that platform (servers) ?
> 
> I could see some interest on Fuse, but, again, there is samba/smb connection and NFS for mac clients.

Native OSX client! :)

OSX is my main desktop, so this appeals to me.

The NFS client on OSX is amazingly lousy.  Not reliable, huge performance
problems, etc.  All on OSX side (Google "OSX" and "NFS" for an extensive
list).


> Something is not quite right on this equation: gluster for mac desktops ?

Please yes! ;)

+ Justin

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