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gfarm maintainer - any comment on the below?
On 2015-03-31 7:06, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
Please consider removing the following packages from "testing":
gfarm
gfarm2fs
"gfarm" and "gfarm2fs" packages were last updated early 2011 (plus NMU
in
early 2012). Current version of Gfarm in Jessie (2.4) is too old and
doesn't have data integrity features that were introduced in version
2.6.
Seemingly upstream do not support 2.4 any more (I've seen only
references to
VCS updates to 2.5 and 2.6).
Gfarm 2.6 is a very good distributed parallel storage system. IMHO at
the
moment (until LizardFS will be accepted from NEW) Gfarm is the best
such
system in Debian -- certainly better and more reliable than Ceph (I
wish I
knew that earlier so I wouldn't spend so much time fixing Ceph)...
Unfortunately Gfarm is still little known: current popcon score is only
18 for
"gfarm" and 8 for "gfarm2fs" (I'm pretty sure my servers account for at
least
quarter of this score). IMHO it will be unfortunate if someone would
try
outdated Gfarm from Jessie and I doubt that 2.4 would be responsible
for
popcon growth. Besides I've never used version 2.4 and have no
intention to
use or to support it.
Regards,
Adam
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