On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:31 PM Amar Tumballi <ama...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > > As per the discussion on https://review.gluster.org/23645, recently we > changed the status of gNFS (gluster's native NFSv3 support) feature to > 'Depricated / Orphan' state. (ref: > https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/MAINTAINERS#L185..L189). > With this email, I am proposing to change the status again to 'Odd Fixes' > (ref: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/MAINTAINERS#L22) > > TL;DR; > > I understand the current maintainers are not able to focus on maintaining > it as the focus of the project, as earlier described, is keeping > NFS-Ganesha based integration with glusterfs. But, I am volunteering along > with Xie Changlong (currently working at Chinamobile), to keep the feature > running as it used to in previous versions. Hence the status of 'Odd > Fixes'. > As long as there are volunteers to keep maintaining it, I think it's a great idea to have it. I personally do not see the value, as I believe it's somewhat of a redundant effort in several ways (it's not helping stabilizing having more than one implementation, it doesn't help in improving it from features perspective - pNFS, NFS v4.2, IPv6, performance... and it 'costs' more in CI and testing), but indeed if there's interest from both the users and the development community - then sure! > Before sending the patch to make these changes, I am proposing it here > now, as gNFS is not even shipped with latest glusterfs-7.0 releases. I have > heard from some users that it was working great for them with earlier > releases, as all they wanted was NFS v3 support, and not much of features > from gNFS. Also note that, even though the packages are not built, none of > the regression tests using gNFS are stopped with latest master, so it is > working same from at least last 2 years. > > I request the package maintainers to please add '--with gnfs' (or > --enable-gnfs) back to their release script through this email, so those > users wanting to use gNFS happily can continue to use it. Also points to > users/admins is that, the status is 'Odd Fixes', so don't expect any > 'enhancements' on the features provided by gNFS. > 'Odd fixes' sounds odd to me. Better come with a better terminology. ;-) Y. > > Happy to hear feedback, if any. > > Regards, > Amar > > _______________________________________________ > > Community Meeting Calendar: > > APAC Schedule - > Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 11:30 AM IST > Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/441850968 > > > NA/EMEA Schedule - > Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 01:00 PM EDT > Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/441850968 > > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@gluster.org > https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > >
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