[Gluster-users] Gluster on Thumper

rhubbell rhubbell at ihubbell.com
Sat Nov 29 19:18:03 UTC 2008


Harshavardhana,

Thanks for that link, I see that it's been updated.
Are the instructions for building from a tar ball?

If they are intended from building from the tree then
you may want to consider adding the steps for autogen
and autoconf, etc.



On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 00:22 +0530, Harshavardhana Ranganath wrote:
> Hi Aspasia,
> 
>      Sorry for late reply, Yes we have successfully deployed GlusterFS
> on Sun thumper platforms and are currently working in production from
> months. Please follow the below link to understand how to compile and
> prerequisites for compiling GlusterFS 
> on Solaris/OpenSolaris. 
> 
> http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_on_Solaris
> 
> Please let us know if you face any problems. 
> 
> Regards
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:08 AM, a s p a s i a <aspasia.sf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         Hello all,
>         
>         
>         Am newbie to opensolaris and SUN HW; am curious and
>         considering the
>         Thumper 4540/ZFS/Gluster/Unify solution to provide cluster
>         file system
>         services to a bunch of clients ...
>         
>         question is -
>         
>         1.  Has anyone deployed this in production?  if so, what type
>         of
>         application environment is this appropriate for - ie., large
>         seq IO -
>         like rendering, HPC; how appropriate is it for random and
>         small files?
>         
>         2.  Can anyone point me to any links that could give me some
>         idea of
>         the ideal architecture where this technology is deployed?
>         
>         Is there an entry level configuration that one can grow into
>         as
>         environment grows, YET maintain a simplified level of
>         administration
>         (ie., still have single namespace, no mount map problems,
>         etc.)?
>         
>         Any suggestions or help will be greatly appreciated.
>         
>         Best,
>         
>         aspasia.
>         
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