[Gluster-users] Meta-discussion

[John Mark Walker]

On Dec 27, 2012 9:10 PM, "Stephan von Krawczynski" <skraw at ithnet.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, JM forgive my ignorance, but it simply does not match up what you
say.
> First you say:
>
> "In general, I don't recommend any distributed filesystems for VM images,
but
> I can also see that this is the wave of the future.
>
> Which means you do not believe at all in one major goal of this fs. Hu?

I meant as they're implemented now, which will change in the future.
Obviously, I hope we get there.

-JM

> And then:
>
> "I am sorry that you haven't been able to deploy glusterfs in production.
> Discussing how and why glusterfs works - or doesn't work - for particular
use
> cases is welcome on this list. Starting off a discussion about how the
entire
> approach is unworkable is kind of counter-productive and not exactly
helpful
> to those of us who just want to use the thing."
>
> Now how can you expect a "productive" input to a question where you
yourself
> do not believe in an answer being possible at all.
> I mean, you expect it to fail anyway but nevertheless want people to spend
> their time? Most of us are _not_ paid for debugging glusterfs. Are you
> paid for it? And you do not believe in the project anyway (you said so
above)?
> I am astonished ...
>
> Regards,
> Stephan
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Sean Fulton <sean at gcnpublishing.com> wrote:
> >
> > I didn't think his message violated any of your rules. Seems to me he
> > has some disagreements with the approach being used to develop Gluster.
> > I think you should listen to people who disagree with you.
> >
> >  From monitoring this list for more than a year and
> > tried--unsuccessfully--to put Gluster into production use, I think there
> > are a lot of people who have problems with stability.
> >
> > So please, can you respond to his comments with why his suggestions are
> > invalid?
> >
> > sean
> >
> >
> > On 12/27/2012 03:39 PM, John Mark Walker wrote:
> > >
> > > Stephan,
> > >
> > > I'm going to make this as simple as possible. Every message to this
> > > list should follow these rules:
> > >
> > > 1. be helpful
> > > 2. be constructive
> > > 3. be respectful
> > >
> > > I will not tolerate ranting that serves no purpose. If your message
> > > doesn't follow any of the rules above, then you shouldn't be posting
it.
> > >
> > > This is your 2nd warning.
> > >
> > > -JM
> > >
> > >
> > >
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