[Gluster-users] GlusterFS compared to KosmosFS (now called cloudstore)?

[Keith Freedman]

At 08:03 AM 10/21/2008, Stas Oskin wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Just to clarify the matter for me, doesn't GlusterFS requires 
>updating config files & restarting on all servers, so these could be 
>aware each of another?
>
>Or it's actually the clients' job to communicate with different 
>servers and store the files?
>Btw, this brings me to another question: how much resource the 
>clients require? Can they be on app servers, or they need a 
>dedicated machines for them own?

this is interesting.. what might be nice for a future version is:
if a client pulls its config from a server, it should auto-update 
itself if the server is updated with a new client config.  that'd 
solve a lot of the "do I have to restart" concerns.

Although that issue still remains in the servers, but I think that's 
a 1.5 roadmap feature.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to use the -O remount feature when 
necessary, if it can't automagically refigure itself out.


>Regards.
>
>2008/10/20 Amar S. Tumballi <<mailto:amar at zresearch.com>amar at zresearch.com>
>
>1) Will it support a central management of all serves/clients, 
>including the global AFR settings?
>
>
>Yes, there is an option already existing in glusterfs to pull a spec 
>file from server (for clients), and most of the times server spec 
>files needs no change in adding up more volumes.
>
>
>2) When it comes out? :)
>
>
>As I said above, you can pull client spec from server, and we are 
>always thinking of reducing the management problems when you scale, 
>and is considered higher priority in roadmap.
>
>
>Regards.
>
>
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