[Gluster-users] Gluster geo location setup?

[paul simpson]

+1 for greater robustness too.
On Mar 20, 2011 11:27 PM, "Count Zero" <countz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreed 100% - For Gluster, this makes the most sense for now. It has to
establish itself as reliable and consistent, before it adds bells and
whistles.
>
>
>
> On Mar 21, 2011, at 2:05 AM, R.C. wrote:
>
>> I hope that, before moving development resources to the WAN extension,
some
>> more urgent features in the mainline will be implemented; one for all:
>> automatic self-heal startup.
>>
>> IMMO (In My Modest Opinion)
>>
>> Raf
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Count Zero" <countz at gmail.com>
>> To: "Brent Clark" <brentgclarklist at gmail.com>
>> Cc: <gluster-users at gluster.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 9:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster geo location setup?
>>
>>
>>> As others responded, Gluster is not ready for WAN scenarios, and it is
>>> unclear if/when it will be...
>>> I am following the Gluster project closely, and have been using it for a
>>> year now on various internal test clusters.
>>>
>>> What can work for you right now is a project called 'sector-sphere'. It
is
>>> actually built with WAN in mind, is more secure than Gluster (uses
>>> encryption), and even supports a topology map, something Gluster does
not
>>> do (yet).
>>>
>>> (And by the way, even when it IS finally announced in Gluster, then
based
>>> on my experience with Gluster, I would be very wary to use the first
>>> version until a second or third version is released with bug
>>> fixes/improvements for the WAN mechanisms. Not trying to diss the
>>> technology, just being responsible and think you should be cautious and
>>> test things out thoroughly before pushing anything to production!).
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 19, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Brent Clark wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hiya
>>>>
>>>> I would like to know if you can or if anyone is using Gluster in a
>>>> geolocation setup for a Distributed filesystem sense.
>>>>
>>>> Reason I ask is. I got this two machines, and they are continents apart
>>>> (Datacentre South Africa (Johannesburg) and Datacentre Germany).
>>>> Currently Im using rsync to pull all updated and modified files.
>>>> I was hoping I could use Gluster as a Active / Active Filesystem.
>>>>
>>>> If someone could share any thoughts or suggestions, it would be
>>>> appreciated.
>>>> Kind Regards
>>>> Brent Clark
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