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

Wed Mar 24 21:50:42 UTC 2010

It is hard to fully understand what you just wrote.  If you are
suggesting that someone else's personal preferences (or company
objectives) are incorrect or misguided simply because they don't match
your own I'm trying to understand how your last post pertains to the
user forum for Gluster?  There are plenty of reasons to prefer packages
over source installations but that academic conversation is also not
appropriate for this list.

Cheers,
Benjamin

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[mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Stephan von
Krawczynski
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:37 PM
To: Ian Rogers
Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Setup for production - which one would you
choose?

Ok, guys, honestly: it is allowed to learn (RMS fought for your right to
do so)
:-)
Really rarely in the open source universe you will find a piece of
software
that is as easy to compile and run as glusterfs. All you have to know
yourself
is how to use tar. Then enter the source directory and do "./configure ;
make ;
make install" What exactly is difficult to do? Why would you install
_some_
rpm that is outdated anyways (be it 2.0.9 or 3.0.2)?
Please don't tell you configure and drive LAMP but can't build
glusterfs.
The docs for 5 apache config options are longer than the whole
glusterfs-source...

--
Regards,
Stephan

PS: yes, I know it's the user-list. 

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:14:32 +0000
Ian Rogers <ian.rogers at contactclean.com> wrote:

> 
> 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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