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

[Ian Rogers]

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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