New subject: [NFS-Ganesha-Devel] Unsupported FSALs

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

If you are still committed to supporting FSAL_GLUSTER, could you take a look at this
patch:

https://review.gerrithub.io/c/ffilz/nfs-ganesha/+/547270

Thanks

Frank

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Subject: [NFS-Ganesha-Support] Re: [NFS-Ganesha-Devel] Unsupported FSALs

Wonderful, I will start looking into the issues. I have already added the meeting invites
to my calendar. Though it is bit out of my working hours, I hope to join the call
regularly.

-Rafi

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Subject: RE: [NFS-Ganesha-Devel] Unsupported FSALs

That is great. I just relabled all the FSAL_GLUSTER github issues that were labeled as
UNSUPPORTED FSAL as GLUSTER.

If you could start taking a look at them, that would be a big help.

We also invite you to join our weekly community call, Tuesday’s 7:00 AM Pacific Time. If
you’d like me to add you to the calendar invite, I will do so, but here’s the call
details:

Ganesha community call

Tuesday, April 8 · 7:00 – 8:00am

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Thanks

Frank

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Subject: RE: [NFS-Ganesha-Devel] Unsupported FSALs

Hi Frank,

We heavily rely on Gluster FSAL for our archive product. We have two active developers
working on the project. While we mostly mastered the gluster project, we are confident
that we can support the Gluster FSAL with the help of community. Since NFS-Ganesha  is
such an important part of our project, we will definitely want to do everything to keep
Gluster FSAL moving with Ganesha community. 

Let us know how we can take it forward.

Regards
Rafi

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From: Frank Filz < <mailto:ffilzlnx@mindspring.com> ffilzlnx(a)mindspring.com&gt; 
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Subject: [NFS-Ganesha-Devel] Unsupported FSALs

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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