Tanstaafl <tanstaafl <at> libertytrek.org> writes:
> Ummmm... nothing about what license it is released under, and they want > personal info from you to download the source... > I'm not sure this is anything to jump up and down about yet... agreed. bummer. Sometimes it takes time for the folks that put up the money for initial development, to decide to do the right thing on licensing. With file system choices so abundant, opensource gets you a community involved with patches and bug fillings, so there is hope? [A] Maybe one of our (council) leaders should drop Sven Breuner an email and ask it their is an appropriately acceptable license for the gentoo community to use this cluster file system routinely on gentoo..... > Is this going to be another ZFS problem, where it is open source, but > linux can't make the best use of it? Excellent point about the license. Did the license stop zfs folks from enjoying zfs? I know the zfs license stops some commercial folks from deploy/using zfs. And zfs is not a routine choice in the installation docs for gentoo..... What I do know is about 75% of the folks that run clusters for Hi Performance Computing, that I have exchanged pleasantries with, all extol the virtues of beegfs. Most already pay to use it, but I do not know of their financial models going forward. Hopefully, they'll be like postgresql and sell/develop for the commercial folks and let the po(linux) folk ride for free. My biggest bottleneck in bringing apache-mesos to gentoo is the choice of node(File System)//distributed(File System) that leads to the right mix of features and speed. Surely ext4/beegfs or btrfs/beegfs is attractive no matter what container or HPC codes you run on top of your gentoo cluster(s). Furthermore, Cephfs is being used to replace NFS functions in some locations, so there is now a growing pressure of competition among opensource solutions for distributed(cluster) file systems. James [A] http://www.beegfs.com/content/about-us/
