libgfapi-perl

GlusterFS libgfapi binding for Perl 5

The libgfapi-perl provides declarations and linkage for the Gluster gfapi C library with FFI for many Perl mongers.

To use it, you can use test code that exists under 't/' directory for reference.

SYNOPSIS

# make GlusterFS Volume instance
my $fs = GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_new('libgfapi-perl');

# set server information for a volume
if (GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_set_volfile_server($fs, 'tcp', 'node1', 24007))
{
    die "Failed to set volfile server: $!";
}

# initialize connection for a GlusterFS Volume
if (GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_init($fs))
{
    die "Failed to init connection: $!";
}

# get a Volume-ID
my $len = 16;
my $id  = "\0" x $len;

if (GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_get_volumeid($fs, $id, $len) < 0)
{
    die "Failed to get volume-id: $!";
}

printf "Volume-ID: %s\n", join('-', unpack('H8 H4 H4 H4 H12', $id));

# get stat for a volume
my $stat = GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::Statvfs->new();

if (GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_statvfs($fs, '/', $stat))
{
    die "Failed to get statvfs: $!";
}

printf "- f_bsize   : %d\n",   $stat->f_bsize;
printf "- f_frsize  : %d\n",   $stat->f_frsize;
printf "- f_blocks  : %d\n",   $stat->f_blocks;
printf "- f bfree   : %d\n",   $stat->f_bfree;
printf "- f_bavail  : %d\n",   $stat->f_bavail;
printf "- f_files   : %d\n",   $stat->f_files;
printf "- f_ffree   : %d\n",   $stat->f_ffree;
printf "- f_favail  : %d\n",   $stat->f_favail;
printf "- f_fsid    : %d\n",   $stat->f_fsid;
printf "- f_flag    : 0x%o\n", $stat->f_flag;
printf "- f_namemax : %d\n",   $stat->f_namemax;

# create a file and take file-descriptor
my $fd = GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_creat($fs, "/potato", O_RDWR, 0644);

# get stat for a file
$stat = GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::Stat->new();

if (GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_stat($fs, "/potato", $stat))
{
    die "Failed to stat: $!";
}

printf "- ino     : %d\n",   $stat->st_ino;
printf "- mode    : 0x%o\n", $stat->st_mode;
printf "- size    : %d\n",   $stat->st_size;
printf "- blksize : %d\n",   $stat->st_blksize;
printf "- uid     : %d\n",   $stat->st_uid;
printf "- gid     : %d\n",   $stat->st_gid;
printf "- atime   : %d\n",   $stat->st_atime;
printf "- mtime   : %d\n",   $stat->st_mtime;
printf "- ctime   : %d\n",   $stat->st_ctime;

# write data to a file
my $buffer = 'this is a lipsum';

if (GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_write($fd, $buffer, length($buffer), 0) == -1)
{
    die "Failed to write: $!";
}

# seek a file offset
if (GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_lseek($fd, 0, 0))
{
    die "Failed to seek: $!";
}

# read data from a file
$buffer = "\0" x 256;

if (GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_read($fd, $buffer, 256, 0) == -1)
{
    die "Failed to read: $!";
}

printf "read: %s\n", $buffer;

# close a file
if (GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_close($fd))
{
    die "Failed to close: $!";
}

# destroy a connection
if (GlusterFS::GFAPI::FFI::glfs_fini($fs))
{
    die "Failed to terminate: $!"
}

REQUIREMENTS

It uses gfapi C library so you should install that before using.

Please follow steps;

# RHEL/CentOS
sudo yum install glusterfs-api

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install glusterfs-common

LIMITATIONS

Asynchronous I/O

libgfapi-perl does not support some asynchronous I/O functions that using closure(callback) yet.

• glfs_read_async()
• glfs_write_async()
• glfs_readv_async()
• glfs_writev_async()
• glfs_pread_async()
• glfs_pwrite_async()
• glfs_preadv_async()
• glfs_pwritev_async()
• glfs_ftruncate_async()
• glfs_fsync_async()
• glfs_fdatasync_async()
• glfs_discard_async()
• glfs_zerofill_async()

SEE ALSO

• overload

• Fcntl

• POSIX

• Carp

• Try::Tiny

• File::Spec

• List::MoreUtils

• Moo

• Generator::Object

• FFI::Platypus

  Write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries without C or XS

• FFI::CheckLib

  Check that a library is available for FFI

AUTHOR

Author: Ji-Hyeon Gim (@potatogim)

Contributors

• Tae-Hwa Lee (@alghost)
• Hyo-Chan Lee (@eelhc)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright 2017-2019 by Ji-Hyeon Gim.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the GPLv2/LGPLv3.