[Lustre-discuss] Lustre on FreeBSD

[Ken Hornstein]

>...the build them against your kernel -- unless you mean licensing 
>support under FreeBSD?

In terms of licensing ... since Lustre is GPL, I can't see any reason
why there would be any licensing conflict.

All you have to do is download the sources, make the few minor changes
to port Lustre to FreeBSD, and you should be in business.  Should be
a snap! :-)

But seriously ... as someone who's been beating their head against the
wall with regards to the Macintosh port, you've got an uphill battle.
And by "uphill", I'm talking about the Northeast ridge of Mount
Everest.  Okay, maybe it's not that bad, but it's not for the faint of
heart or people unfamiliar with kernel development.  I did find some
effort a while ago to port Lustre to FreeBSD, but I think it used
Liblustre and FUSE, but when I last checked it seem to have stalled.

If you are crazy enough to want to port Lustre to FreeBSD, you might want
to check out the Macintosh port.  It is at least the preliminary work
you would need to do to get it working on a vnode-based system.  A lot
of work will still need to be done, but you could leverage a lot of
work from what I've done (and what I'm still working on).

If you're not that crazy and you're asking if someone has ported Lustre
to FreeBSD already ... I think the correct answer is "no".

--Ken