[Gluster-users] [EXT] Re: [Glusterusers] State of the gluster project

[wk]

On 10/28/23 1:30 PM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>
> Which is shame because I choose GlusterFS for one of my storage clusters
> _specifically_ due to the ease of emergency data recovery (for purely
> replicated volumes) even in case of complete failure of the software
> stack and system disks - just grab the data disks, mount on a suitable
> machine and copy the data off.
>
And that is the beauty of Gluster. You know you always have your data as 
long as just one disk survives.

my hope is that gluster survives due to its open source nature and the 
fact that is rather mature.

and, yes hopefully, the kadula will keep it (or their fork of it) going 
if no one else steps up

Certainly there won't be much in the way of improvements but its been 
pretty feature stable for awhile especially for replicated bricks.

So I hope that the work involved would involve adapting it to the newer 
OS distros.

> Anyone knows of distributed FS with similar easy emergency recovery?
>
> (I also run Ceph, but Bluestore seems to be pretty much a black box.)

What has been your impression of the performance difference between Ceph 
and Gluster, especially in regards to VMs

Its been awhile since I tried Ceph at the time, I found it that it 
required more moving parts (compared to Gluster which is of course silly 
simple to get going) for not much improvement, but i'd assume they have 
improved that since then.

-wk



> Kind regards,
>             Alex.
>
>> /Z
>>
>> On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 11:21, Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well,
>>>
>>> After IBM acquisition, RH discontinued their support in many projects
>>> including GlusterFS (certification exams were removed, payed product went
>>> EOL, etc).
>>>
>>> The only way to get it back on track is with a sponsor company that haves
>>> the capability to drive it.
>>> Kadalu is relying on GlusterFS but they are not as big as Red Hat and
>>> based on one of the previous e-mails they will need sponsorship to dedicate
>>> resources.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Strahil Nikolov
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Saturday, October 28, 2023, 9:57 AM, Marcus Pedersén <
>>> marcus.pedersen at slu.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I just have a general thought about the gluster
>>> project.
>>> I have got the feeling that things has slowed down
>>> in the gluster project.
>>> I have had a look at github and to me the project
>>> seems to slow down, for gluster version 11 there has
>>> been no minor releases, we are still on 11.0 and I have
>>> not found any references to 11.1.
>>> There is a milestone called 12 but it seems to be
>>> stale.
>>> I have hit the issue:
>>> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/4085
>>> that seems to have no sollution.
>>> I noticed when version 11 was released that you
>>> could not bump OP version to 11 and reported this,
>>> but this is still not available.
>>>
>>> I am just wondering if I am missing something here?
>>>
>>> We have been using gluster for many years in production
>>> and I think that gluster is great!! It has served as well over
>>> the years and we have seen some great improvments
>>> of stabilility and speed increase.
>>>
>>> So is there something going on or have I got
>>> the wrong impression (and feeling)?
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Marcus
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