[Gluster-users] question re. current state of art/practice - follow-up

Thomas Jackson thomas at thomax.com.au
Thu Feb 16 21:53:45 UTC 2012


At the moment, we're not doing auto-failover (it is on the todo list, but it
isn't something we've had a chance to look into in depth yet).


-----Original Message-----
From: Miles Fidelman [mailto:mfidelman at meetinghouse.net] 
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 7:30 AM
To: Thomas Jackson
Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] question re. current state of art/practice -
follow-up

A quick follow-up question:

Thomas Jackson wrote:
>
> We set up a 4 node cluster using Gluster with KVM late last year - 
> which has been running along quite nicely for us.
>
<snip>
>
> I'd definitely say this approach at least worth a look for anyone 
> building a small VM cluster. Gluster is still a bit too immature for 
> me to be 100% happy with it, but I think it's going to be perfect in 6 
> months time. At the moment, it is fine to use in production with a bit 
> of care and knowledge of the limitations.
>

Are you doing any kind of auto-failover, and if so how do you have that set
up?

Thanks,

Miles


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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra


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