Bug 960728

Summary:	Review Request: kfs - Kosmos distributed file system (KFS)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pete MacKinnon <pmackinn>
Component:	Package Review	Assignee:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	matt, notting, package-review, puntogil, robinlee.sysu, rrati, tstclair
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Description Pete MacKinnon 2013-05-07 19:16:49 UTC

Kosmos distributed file system (KFS) provides high performance
combined with availability and reliability. It is intended to
be used as the back-end storage infrastructure for data intensive
apps such as search engines, data mining, grid computing, etc.

KFS has been deployed in production settings on large clusters to
manage multiple petabytes of storage.

KFS is implemented in C++ using standard system components such as
STL, boost libraries, AIO, log4cpp.

KFS is integrated with Hadoop and Hypertable.

Comment 1 Pete MacKinnon 2013-05-07 19:17:29 UTC

srpm at:

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/rrati/hadoop/fedora-18/SRPMS/kfs-0.5-1.fc18.src.rpm

Comment 2 Robin Lee 2013-05-13 02:58:24 UTC

KFS upstream seems dead. Do you really want to maintain this package? Or switch to QFS, what you have mentioned in the specfile?

Comment 3 Pete MacKinnon 2013-05-13 11:52:28 UTC

As a dependency for the Hadoop 2.x series, we would like to maintain KFS for a period of time and guide Hadoop upstream adoption towards QFS. QFS can be configured in as a pluggable and optimized replacement for KFS so we could develop and package that in parallel (spec and review TBD).

Comment 4 Pete MacKinnon 2013-05-16 13:57:05 UTC

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5388205

Comment 5 Timothy St. Clair 2013-05-22 16:26:11 UTC

Looking at 2.0.5, it appears to be a testing only dependency (possibly for compatibility).  It appears we may be able to prune the dependency entirely as we track forward progress a bit closer.

Comment 6 Timothy St. Clair 2013-05-22 19:26:56 UTC

Update has been made to branch-2 stream to remove. 

ref: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8886

I also verified it is no longer required for build and is removed.

recommend CLOSE->WONTFIX

IMHO, we should still pursue QFS support in the future as time permits.