[Gluster-users] Setup for production - which one would you choose?

Oliver Hoffmann oh at dom.de
Wed Mar 24 22:01:55 UTC 2010 

Yep, thanx.

@Stephan: It is not a matter of knowing how use tar and make, but if you 
have a bunch of servers than you want to do an apt-get update/upgrade 
once in a while without compiling this piece of software on that server 
and another one on another server, etc.
> It is hard to fully understand what you just wrote.  If you are
> suggesting that someone else's personal preferences (or company
> objectives) are incorrect or misguided simply because they don't match
> your own I'm trying to understand how your last post pertains to the
> user forum for Gluster?  There are plenty of reasons to prefer packages
> over source installations but that academic conversation is also not
> appropriate for this list.
>
> Cheers,
> Benjamin
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
> [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Stephan von
> Krawczynski
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:37 PM
> To: Ian Rogers
> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Setup for production - which one would you
> choose?
>
> Ok, guys, honestly: it is allowed to learn (RMS fought for your right to
> do so)
> :-)
> Really rarely in the open source universe you will find a piece of
> software
> that is as easy to compile and run as glusterfs. All you have to know
> yourself
> is how to use tar. Then enter the source directory and do "./configure ;
> make ;
> make install" What exactly is difficult to do? Why would you install
> _some_
> rpm that is outdated anyways (be it 2.0.9 or 3.0.2)?
> Please don't tell you configure and drive LAMP but can't build
> glusterfs.
> The docs for 5 apache config options are longer than the whole
> glusterfs-source...
>
> --
> Regards,
> Stephan
>
> PS: yes, I know it's the user-list. 
>
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:14:32 +0000
> Ian Rogers <ian.rogers at contactclean.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I've just done part one of a writeup of my EC2 gluster LAMP
>>     
> installation 
>   
>> at 
>>
>>     
> http://www.sirgroane.net/2010/03/distributed-file-system-on-amazon-ec2/ 
>   
>> - may or may not be useful to you :-)
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On 24/03/2010 17:09, Oliver Hoffmann wrote:
>>     
>>> Yes, that's an idea. Thanx. That will be important for all the
>>>       
> debian
>   
>>> clients, mostly lenny.
>>>
>>> I think waiting and testing a month is quite ok though.
>>>
>>>    
>>>       
>>>> To have glusterfs 3.0.3 on ubuntu 9.10 you can also just install
>>>>         
> the
>   
>>>> debian package for gluster 3.0.3 with dpkg -i.
>>>>
>>>> http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/glusterfs
>>>>
>>>> But then 10.04 is only a month away, so depends how much of a rush
>>>> your in!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 24 Mar 2010 16:45:40 Oliver Hoffmann wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>         
>>>>> Haha, there are loads of Linux distributions out there and even
>>>>> strange OSes like *BSD or windooze or what's it called? ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried out Gentoo a while ago but I droped it because all the
>>>>> compiling took way too long. The big plus here is the big minus on
>>>>> debian like systems. The current Ubuntu 9.10 for example has
>>>>> glusterfs 2.0.9, period. If you want to have 3.0.2 then you have
>>>>>           
> to
>   
>>>>> wait for Ubuntu 10.04 or you compile it.
>>>>> But now that we have (almost) 10.04 with 3.0.2 I'll take this way.
>>>>> Having such a system up and running on recent hardware is a matter
>>>>> of maybe 10 or 20 minutes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>>>           
>>>>>> On 22/03/2010 17:59, Oliver Hoffmann wrote:
>>>>>>          
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just made some tests on two old machines using Ubuntu 10.4
>>>>>>> (server i386) with fuse-2.7.4glfs11 and glusterfs-3.0.3. At a
>>>>>>> first glance it seems to be OK.
>>>>>>> The next step is deploying a system which could be used for
>>>>>>> production. What would you suggest? Ubuntu 10.4 (server 64bit)
>>>>>>> is my first choice because of LTS. Whatsoever, I think it is
>>>>>>> more the version of glusterfs which makes it stable or not,
>>>>>>> isn't it? In the end I'd like to have a distributed&
>>>>>>> replicated storage which provides data for a bunch of
>>>>>>> (virtualized) LAMPS.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> TIA for your recommendations!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> I'm intrigued.  I had not realised that there were other options
>>>>>> than Gentoo for use on a server?!  (Bang up to date, flexible
>>>>>> configuration and strong support of various virtualisation
>>>>>> solutions.  Slight negative in update speeds, but can be
>>>>>> mitigated by using a binary package cache)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Will try out those new fangled options you suggested above, but
>>>>>>             
> in
>   
>>>>>> the meantime have a look at Gentoo (at least if you are fairly
>>>>>> confident with your linux skills).  Big plug for linux-vservers
>>>>>> also, especially in combination with some custom server profiles
>>>>>> to define required software versions and options
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good luck
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ed W
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