[Gluster-devel] Suggested changes to install and run section of wiki
Amar S. Tumballi
amar at zresearch.com
Wed Apr 30 21:59:10 UTC 2008
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Install_and_run_GlusterFS_v1.3_in_10mins
>
> I was reading through this, and I know this is totally an opinion
> thing, so I am only offering this as my opinion.
>
> I believe it would be nicer and cleaner for this page to either not
> include a spec file example, and focus on downloading and installing
> glusters, or maybe include a very basic server and client spec file at
> the very end as a "you are now working". This would keep it down to a
> heres how to download and install, and then link to the spec file
> examples for, well examples.
>
Sure, I will be removing the cluster example from there, and will give a
pointer to examples page.
>
> Also, a question and suggestion both, but can this page also provide
> instructions both for downloading from the ftp site AND svn? Which is
> the preferred or suggested way of getting glusterfs? Is it better to
> use the latest from svn or the version that is on the ftp site? Are
> these the same?
though arch may have some bug fixes, from now on, ftp should be good enough
for trying out glusterfs, and for the basic setups. we will be making
releases with bug fixes with smaller gaps. hence link to ftp is good enough
IMHO.
>
> I would offer to help out with examples if i was more comfortable and
> actually knew what i was doing. as it stands i created a wiki account
> but i am too dumb at this piont to figure out how to start a new page
> or whatever (never actually used a wiki for other than reading it).
>
Search for a page header, if that page doesn't exists, there will be a link
to create page. Anyways, to start with you can start editing at least :)
> ok thank you!
>
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Amar Tumballi
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