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

[Ian Rogers]

Thanks for your thanks :-) Part 2 here 
http://www.sirgroane.net/2010/03/tuning-glusterfs-for-apache-on-ec2/

Ian

On 25/03/2010 05:02, Tejas N. Bhise wrote:
> Ian,
>
> Thanks a lot for the article. Appreciate it. Gluster needs such contributions for larger adoption.
>
> I would encourage and request everyone to write about their experiences, use cases, applications using
> Gluster etc. so others who are using the same applications will be encouraged to try out Gluster.
>
> Regards,
> Tejas.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Rogers"<ian.rogers at contactclean.com>
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:44:32 PM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Setup for production - which one would you choose?
>
>
> 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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