Solomon Boulos offered to support the PROXY FSALs, so I will leave them alone. If you would be willing to help support also, that would be a great help.

Thanks

Frank

From: Yoni Couriel [mailto:yonic@google.com]
Sent: Monday, April 7, 2025 1:00 AM
To: Ruben Alcolea <ruben.crash@gmail.com>
Cc: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>; devel@lists.nfs-ganesha.org; support@lists.nfs-ganesha.org
Subject: Re: [NFS-Ganesha-Devel] Re: Unsupported FSALs

Hi Frank and community,

I wanted to share my perspective on the value of maintaining simpler FSALs like VFS or PROXY_V3.

* These FSALs provide a consistent method for reproducing testing failures, which we've found useful in the past.

* They offer new users a straightforward way to begin testing (example) and serve as a practical foundation for developing custom FSALs.

Should we keep at least one of them?

Thanks,

Yoni

On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM Ruben Alcolea <ruben.crash@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for sending the invitation Frank.

Following your request, I will open a github issue documenting the problems we have with V6.5.

Thank you for your support,

Rubén

El dom, 6 abr 2025 a las 4:45, Frank Filz (<ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>) escribió:

I should have also mentioned…

Please open a github issue with the problems you are having with V6.5. I might have suggestions on what might have gone wrong.

Frank

From: Ruben Alcolea [mailto:ruben.crash@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 4, 2025 9:54 AM
To: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>
Cc: devel@lists.nfs-ganesha.org; support@lists.nfs-ganesha.org
Subject: Re: [NFS-Ganesha-Devel] Unsupported FSALs

Hi Frank,

I’m writing as a member of the SaunaFS community to confirm that we rely on the SaunaFS FSAL for our filesystem.

However, we have encountered issues preventing us from migrating to the latest stable v6.5, as our test suite for Ganesha currently passes only for v4.4 but not for v6.5 (21 / 23 pass successfully, 2 tests fail).

In the coming days, I plan to update our GitHub Actions pipeline to run our test suite for Ganesha v6.5, making the results available to the Ganesha community.

As part of the SaunaFS community, we are committed to support SaunaFS FSAL and keep it up to date with the latest API changes.

From our team, we would like to contribute to ensure FSAL_SAUNAFS remains supported and compatible with the latest Ganesha versions.

Best regards,

Rubén

El lun, 31 mar 2025 a las 23:04, Frank Filz (<ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>) escribió:

Community,

We have a number of FSALs in Ganesha that have no effective support, I’d like to understand who might still be relying on them and if there is anyone who might step up to support them, or whether we can consider removing some on an expedited timeline (normally we declare a FSAL is deprecated in one release, and then remove it in the next). Note that with the magic of git, deleted FSALs could easily be resurrected (though they might not have been updated to match API changes). The risk of not removing unsupported code is first that folks will use code with little or no support and open github issues that cannot effectively be addressed, and that unsupported code may not be properly updated as API changes are made.

The following FSALs are suspect:

src/FSAL/FSAL_VFS/xfs – this is marginally supported, but could be replaced with plain FSAL_VFS

src/FSAL/FSAL_VFS – there is also a Lustre FSAL that is built from this

src/FSAL/FSAL_GLUSTER

src/FSAL/FSAL_LIZARDFS

src/FSAL/FSAL_PROXY_V3

src/FSAL/FSAL_PROXY_V4

src/FSAL/FSAL_KVSFS

src/FSAL/FSAL_SAUNAFS

Thank for your thoughts

Frank Filz

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