OFofek·May 8, 2023
Update: attribution has been added to the readme file https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcs-fuse-csi-driver/c...
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gcs-fuse-csi-driver
The Google Cloud Storage FUSE Container Storage Interface (CSI) Plugin.
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What it is
The Google Cloud Storage FUSE Container Storage Interface (CSI) Plugin.
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
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- ofek/csi-gcs · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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Observed mentions: 2023-05-02 16:37:06 UTC to 2023-05-08 15:47:10 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| May 2, 12:00 | 2023-05-02 12:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-02 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2, 18:00 | 2023-05-02 18:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-03 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 3, 00:00 | 2023-05-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-03 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 3, 06:00 | 2023-05-03 06:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-03 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 3, 12:00 | 2023-05-03 12:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-03 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 3, 18:00 | 2023-05-03 18:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 4, 00:00 | 2023-05-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-04 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 4, 06:00 | 2023-05-04 06:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-04 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 4, 12:00 | 2023-05-04 12:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-04 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 4, 18:00 | 2023-05-04 18:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 5, 00:00 | 2023-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-05 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 5, 06:00 | 2023-05-05 06:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-05 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 5, 12:00 | 2023-05-05 12:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-05 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 5, 18:00 | 2023-05-05 18:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 6, 00:00 | 2023-05-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-06 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 6, 06:00 | 2023-05-06 06:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-06 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 6, 12:00 | 2023-05-06 12:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-06 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 6, 18:00 | 2023-05-06 18:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 7, 00:00 | 2023-05-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-07 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 7, 06:00 | 2023-05-07 06:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-07 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 7, 12:00 | 2023-05-07 12:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-07 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 7, 18:00 | 2023-05-07 18:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 8, 00:00 | 2023-05-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-08 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 8, 06:00 | 2023-05-08 06:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-08 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 8, 12:00 | 2023-05-08 12:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-08 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesYou're right their Apache licenses are different:
https://github.com/ofek/csi-gcs/blob/master/LICENSE-APACHE
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcs-fuse-csi-driver/b...
OP should submit a PR to correct this. IANAL but pretty sure they're supposed to use the original copy including copyright notice "Copyright 2020 Ofek Lev"
Might be stolen code until they fix this
In Google Cloud Storage FUSEI do appreciate that Google is now officially supporting gcsfuse because it genuinely is a great project. However, their Kubernetes CSI driver seems to have in large part copied code from the one I and a co-maintainer have been working on for years:
- https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcs-fuse-csi-driver
- https://github.com/ofek/csi-gcs
Here is the initial commit: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcs-fuse-csi-driver/c...
Notice for example not just the code but also the associated files. In the Dockerfile it blatantly copied the one from my repo, even the dual license I chose because I was very into Rust at the time. Or take a look at the deployment examples which use Kustomize which I like but is very uncommon and most Kubernetes projects provide Helm charts instead.
They were most certainly aware of the project because Googl
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e reached out to discuss potential collaboration but never responded back: https://imgur.com/a/KDuf9mj