Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Ward <tew...@ubuntu.com>
* Package name : vmfs6-tools Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Multiple (details below) * URL : https://github.com/teward/vmfs6-tools * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Tools to access VMFS6 filesystems VMFS6 is a clustered filesystem designed to store virtual machine disks for VMware ESX or ESXi Server hosts. This set of tools allows to access these filesystems from some other non ESX/ESXi host for e.g. maintenance tasks. Only read access is available at the moment, but write access is under works. Multiple extents are supported. The VMFS can be accessed with a command line tool or mounted through a userspace filesystem (FUSE-based). This version of VMFS Tools is designed to work with VMFS6, it is not guaranteed to support VMFS5; if you need VMFS5 support, then use the vmfs-tools package instead. ------ Multiple 'authors' have had their ways in this package. The complete authors list is: - Christophe Fillot <c...@utc.fr> (Original VMFS, which Mike Hommey based this on) - Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> (Original vmfs-tools packager) - Weafon Tsao <weafon.t...@accelstor.com> (Created the vmfs6-tools fork for VMFS6) - Thomas Ward <tew...@ubuntu.com> (Myself, as I made some changes to the fork for coinstallability with vmfs-tools) Note that as vmfs6-tools was never actually given a stable release number, I made a release number of 0.1.0 on my own fork of Weafon's repository, which is the basis of this packaging. That forked repository can be found on GitHub (https://github.com/teward/vmfs6-tools). The closest package in similarity to this one is vmfs-tools. However, the vmfs- tools package only has VMFS support up to version 5. VMware ESXi 6 and later use VMFS version 6 formatted file systems, which have substantial changes from version 5. Because VMware ESXi 6 and later use vmfs6, we need to have VMFS6 compatible tools in the repository. However, while vmfs6-tools has VMFS6 support, it is not guaranteed to support vmfs5 well, which makes it infeasible to switch to the forked package in place of vmfs-tools, which is guaranteed to support VMFS5. Because the fork of vmfs-tools to create vmfs6-tools by Weafon Tsao was not designed with reverse compatibility in mind, it makes sense to package vmfs6-tools separately alongside the vmfs-tools package to provide vmfs6 support. This package will be maintained by me, and updated for packaging policy as needed. However, there has been no movement at either vmfs-tools or vmfs6-tools for some time, and therefore there may not ever be actual version bumps to the software.
