[Gluster-devel] Which mainline to use

[Harris Landgarten]

Daniel,

I am running on Amazon EC2. In that environment, I can easily add machines but have a fixed amount of cpu, memory and disk per machine. The application I am running is Zimbra (www.zimbra.com). I am using glusterfs as a backend store for Zimbra. I houses the email store for all emails over 30 days old. As such, this is a read mostly environment. Every night backups run which read and write to glusterfs intensively using a multi-threaded java async file copier. Hard links are used as well. Glusterfs now handles this task perfectly and is very fast. I have also tested gluster for HSM tasks which move emails over 30 days old from primary storage to secondary storage.

I am not running an application directly on gluster because I am concerned about latency in my enviroment. I will try to use gluster for more once AFR is stable and am looking forward to the S3 Xlator.

Best,

Harris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel van Ham Colchete" <daniel.colchete at gmail.com>
To: "gluster-devel" <gluster-devel at nongnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2007 10:33:52 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Which mainline to use

Harry,

I'm sorry for being so nosy, but could you please clarify something about
your production environment? The project I have been planning for 8 months
will go to production in less than 3 weeks. Because of the current AFR
status I'm between Gluster+HeartBeat+DRBD or NFS+Heartbeat+DRBD (without
anything like unify, witch is a minus). In the Gluster case I'll use
mainline-2.5.

Best regards,
Daniel Colchete

On 7/5/07, Harris Landgarten <harrisl at lhjonline.com> wrote:
>
> Einar,
>
> It depends on how you are using gluster. I am running 2.5 in a production
> environment but I only use unify, posix-locks, readahead, writebehind and
> io-threads. I would not use AFR yet with 2.5 since there is still some
> debugging happening but it seems to be getting very close. Others may have
> differing opinions.
>
> Best
>
> Harris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hans Einar Gautun" <einar.gautun at statkart.no>
> To: gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2007 9:08:05 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
> Subject: [Gluster-devel] Which mainline to use
>
> Hi all,
> For production use, which mainline should I check out?
>
> BTW - got this error from make when compiling mailline 2.4 right now:
> ../../../libglusterfs/src/xlator.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/xlator.o
> ../../../libglusterfs/src/xlator.c: In function 'xlator_set_type':
> ../../../libglusterfs/src/xlator.c:95: error: 'XLATORDIR' undeclared
> (first use in this function)
>
> regards,
>
> --
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