[Gluster-users] State of Gluster project

Joe Julian joe at julianfamily.org
Thu Jun 18 14:40:36 UTC 2020


You're still here and still hurt about that? It was never intended to be in kernel. It was always intended to run in userspace. After all these years I thought you'd be over that by now.

On June 18, 2020 1:54:18 AM PDT, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw.ml at ithnet.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:06:33 +0300
>Mahdi Adnan <mahdi at sysmin.io> wrote:
>
>> [gluster going down ]
>
>I am following this project for quite some years now, probably longer
>than
>most of the people nowadays on the list. The project started with the
>brilliant idea of making a fs on top of classical fs's distributed over
>several hardware pieces without need to re-copy data for entering or
>leaving
>the gluster. (I thought) it started as a proof-of-concept fs on fuse
>with the
>intention to turn into kernel-space as soon as possible to get the
>performance
>that it should have for a fs. 
>After five years of waiting (and using) I declared the project dead for
>our
>use (about five years ago) because it evolved more and more to
>bloatware. And
>I do think that Red Hat understood that finally (too), and what you
>mentioned
>is just the outcome of that.
>I really hate the way this project took, because for me it was visible
>from
>the very start that it is a dead-end. After all those years it is
>bloatware on
>fuse. And I feel very sorry for that brilliant idea that it once was.
>_FS IN USERSPACE IS SH*T_  - understand that.
>
>
>-- 
>Regards,
>Stephan
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