[Gluster-users] mysql regression tests fail with gluster 3.1.3

[Mohit Anchlia]

I tried searching for the gluster source where I read about it few
days back but unable to find it. Will search little more and see if I
can find that white paper.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Whit Blauvelt
<whit.gluster at transpect.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 05:00:20PM -0700, Mohit Anchlia wrote:
>> BTW: Gluster is not meant to be used with databases.
>
> What's your source on that? Can you point to anything in the Gluster docs
> which say this? (I've searched. I don't find it.) What's the rationale? Why
> specifically should databases be incompatible with the file system? What
> other uses would be "not meant" for Gluster?
>
> And does this apply, if it does at all, to all configurations of Gluster?
> That is, if it's replicating over a dedicated link between two servers with
> decently fast drives, is is still a problem? (DRBD does fine in that setup,
> why wouldn't Gluster?) Or is it only a problem if, say, you've got a Gluster
> FS distributed over N computers, where N is a number higher than some
> threshold?
>
> Whit
>