Re: emperor leftovers

[Alphe Salas Michels <asalas@kepler.cl>]

I started reading the libcepfs related code. and it is still a hudge task.
Cygwin seems to me to be the more complete set of ported gnu libraries 
to win32.

MSVC is not the tool I will use for the port ... since your work is 
slown and hidden most
of the time below a tons of click to do thingies...

Code:block /mingWin or cygwin seems to me the more producing perspective.
first it is closer to tools used by linux developers.

A full porting to Win32 meas you will have to write ceph code in 
microsoft compilers C++ or .NET
ways, then you will have to write a port in the same way for each side 
libraries that ceph use
and that doesn t exists on MS windows visual studio stuffs...
I m not talking about adapting cout << "you're a coder be happy"; but 
rather adapting pthread lib which is everywhere in ceph code.
that can be done... but if it is already done why not using it ?


But truelly the biggest problem in ceph world is that we have two 
concurent ways to access
the data on ceph. As far as I understand rbd and cephfs are not 
compatible you can t see what
the other did.

We have Rbd and ceph-fs/ceph-fuse so who use what? for what purpose? 
with what results?
 From that depends what a client port to windows will be.
Can we port everything ceph is on windows? well ceph is a hudge project. 
just a quick isolation
of files related to libcephfs.cc shows a 400+ files. Now I try to see if 
all those files are needed and if
that number can be reduced.

Regards

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*Alphé Salas*
Ingeniero T.I


On 11/08/13 02:24, Sage Weil wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Cesar Mello wrote:
>> Yes MSVC and straight win32 is the rock solid way to go. That's where I
>> would put my late night effort to help.
> Me too.  I think the main primitives (mutex, cond, thread) are already
> well abstracted, so hopefully this is a matter of providing win32 (is it
> really still called that??) implementations and adding new wrappers for
> other components as needed.
>
> sage
>
>> Best regards
>> Mello
>>
>> Enviado pelo meu Windows Phone De: Matt W. Benjamin
>> Enviada em: 07/11/2013 23:34
>> Para: Noah Watkins
>> Cc: Patrick McGarry; Ceph Devel; Noah Watkins; Sage Weil; Cesar Mello
>> Assunto: Re: emperor leftovers
>> Or, MSVC, frankly.
>>
>> ----- "Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@linuxbox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes.  But you may wish to think about mingwXX porting rather than
>>> Cygwin,
>>> if you prefer native results.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> ----- "Noah Watkins" <noah.watkins@inktank.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> curious if the discussion on windows portability is relevant here
>>> or
>>>> if
>>>>> it's better treated as a separate but related effort.
>>>> The kernel space talk that's been tossed around probably isn't
>>>> relevant, but I'd be nice to learn about cygwin porting if anyone
>>> has
>>>> knowledge in this area.
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