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