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Inside Track: Oracle has Kicked Lustre to the Curb (InsideHPC)
InsideHPC has received
an anonymous tip that Oracle has ceased development of Lustre.
"We can look forward to more Limbo for a while, but what happens next
with stewardship of Lustre? Will Oracle quietly kill it like they did with
OpenSolaris? Will they set the legacy code base free like they did with
Grid Engine? Or will they just cash in and sell it? Chances are that
Lustre is being shopped around and we won't hear a peep from the Dark Tower
until a sale is announced. That could be months, and that kind of prolonged
uncertainty would not be good for the Lustre community." (Thanks to
Chris Samuel)
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Inside Track: Oracle has Kicked Lustre to the Curb (InsideHPC) Posted Jan 11, 2011 0:13 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
Sounds like glusterfs and Ceph will have more chances to prove themselves.
Inside Track: Oracle has Kicked Lustre to the Curb (InsideHPC) Posted Jan 11, 2011 0:30 UTC (Tue) by DiegoCG (subscriber, #9198) [Link]
Or someone could continue developing Lustre.
Inside Track: Oracle has Kicked Lustre to the Curb (InsideHPC) Posted Jan 11, 2011 1:01 UTC (Tue) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link] If you read down that article it says:As I wrote in a recent story about Lustre engineers joining Whamcloud, Oracle’s Lustre bumbling has rallied the Lustre community in a way that might not have been possible before. With the formation of HPCFS, OpenSFS, and the European Open Filesystems Group, the community has done remarkable job of organizing to ensure that the popular open source file system remains viable for their pending supercomputer plans.cheers! Chris
Inside Track: Oracle has Kicked Lustre to the Curb (InsideHPC) Posted Jan 11, 2011 9:30 UTC (Tue) by Np237 (subscriber, #69585) [Link]
All big players are now part of OpenSFS anyway, or - wild guess - in the process of integrating it. I dont think this will be a problem for the future of Lustre, I rather see this, like LibreOffice, as an opportunity.
Inside Track: Oracle has Kicked Lustre to the Curb (InsideHPC) Posted Jan 12, 2011 0:27 UTC (Wed) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]
It really is amazing to watch them throw away whole projects and communities that probably didn't cost them much to begin with and bought them lots of goodwill. Oracle's gone from being an OK FOSS participator to being the butt of jokes and open community opposition. In the long run with Linux's eventual domination that stance won't be good for them.
Inside Track: Oracle has Kicked Lustre to the Curb (InsideHPC) Posted Jan 12, 2011 10:34 UTC (Wed) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]
My friend Joe Landman makes a case for why fragmentation of Lustre is currently likely and possibly not a good thing for Lustre.
http://scalability.org/?p=2921
My personal feeling is that for Lustre to maintain coherence and to survive in the long term it needs to be pushed upstream into the mainline kernel - working with the kernel folks to overcome the hurdles that have kept it out in the past.
If that can happen and it does get mainstreamed then you have a vendor neutral focal point for development work on it - if it doesn't then, as Joe says in his blog, you've got 3 meta-organisations and 2 companies all potentially going their own way with it instead...
Inside Track: Oracle has Kicked Lustre to the Curb (InsideHPC) Posted Jan 11, 2011 15:41 UTC (Tue) by oblio (guest, #33465) [Link]
Off topic - related to Oracle & Open Source. The Hudson Continuous Integration server has just announced that it will change its name to Jenkins after failing to negotiate acceptable terms with Oracle:
http://kohsuke.org/bye-bye-hudson-hello-jenkins/ http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/hudsons-future This is the first step, as they also want to move off the Oracle infrastructure.
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