[Gluster-devel] Suggested changes to install and run section of wiki

Amar S. Tumballi amar at zresearch.com
Wed Apr 30 23:59:38 UTC 2008


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> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Getting_Started_with_GlusterFS_v1.3
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> I think this page is sort of the same. I was going through and editing
> sections, but it seems like getting started with glusterfs is not
> really a good title for it.
>
> Would you agree that it would make sense to take the spec file
> examples out, and instead the flow would make more sense like this
>
> 1) Introduction
>
> 2) GlusterFS Installation
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> 3) GlusterFS Volume Specification
> preface section with text to the point of "you need a spec file for
> both server and client to configure your glusterfs setup, blah blah"
>
> 4) GlusterFS Scenarios (scenario is probably the wrong word)
> Change the whole section to something more like:
>
> GlusterFS is highly configurable, below are examples scenarios/setups
> that you could possibly use
>
> a) single server to multiple clients NFS <link to example>
> b) multiple servers to multiple clients with unify <link to example>
> c) 2 server afr (server side afr) to multiple clients <link to example>
> d) 2 server afr (client side afr) to multiple clients <link to example>
> e) 3+ server afr etc etc
>
> 5) Going live


Having  lesser and simpler spec files in wiki makes sense. I will be editing
it.


> This would kind of get rid of some redundancy of spec file examples
> and maybe get them all in one section. To me this is more logical.
>
> Comments?
>
> Thanks :)


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Amar Tumballi
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