[Gluster-users] State of the gluster project

Fri Oct 27 08:30:54 UTC 2023

Hi Diego,
I have had a look at BeeGFS and is seems more similar
to ceph then to gluster. It requires extra management
nodes similar to ceph, right?
Second of all there are no snapshots in BeeGFS, as
I understand it.
I know ceph has snapshots so for us this seems a
better alternative. What is your experience of ceph?

I am sorry to hear about your problems with gluster,
from my experience we had quite some issues with gluster
when it was "young", I thing the first version we installed
whas 3.5 or so. It was also extremly slow, an ls took forever.
But later versions has been "kind" to us and worked quite well
and file access has become really comfortable.

Best regards
Marcus

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:16:08AM +0200, Diego Zuccato wrote:
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> Hi.
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> I'm also migrating to BeeGFS and CephFS (depending on usage).
>
> What I liked most about Gluster was that files were easily recoverable
> from bricks even in case of disaster and that it said it supported RDMA.
> But I soon found that RDMA was being phased out, and I always find
> entries that are not healing after a couple months of (not really heavy)
> use, directories that can't be removed because not all files have been
> deleted from all the bricks and files or directories that become
> inaccessible with no apparent reason.
> Given that I currently have 3 nodes with 30 12TB disks each in replica 3
> arbiter 1 it's become a major showstopper: can't stop production, backup
> everything and restart from scratch every 3-4 months. And there are no
> tools helping, just log digging :( Even at version 9.6 seems it's not
> really "production ready"... More like v0.9.6 IMVHO. And now it being
> EOLed makes it way worse.
>
> Diego
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> Il 27/10/2023 09:40, Zakhar Kirpichenko ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Red Hat Gluster Storage is EOL, Red Hat moved Gluster devs to other
> > projects, so Gluster doesn't get much attention. From my experience, it
> > has deteriorated since about version 9.0, and we're migrating to
> > alternatives.
> >
> > /Z
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 10:29, Marcus Pedersén <marcus.pedersen at slu.se
> > <mailto:marcus.pedersen at slu.se>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi all,
> >     I just have a general thought about the gluster
> >     project.
> >     I have got the feeling that things has slowed down
> >     in the gluster project.
> >     I have had a look at github and to me the project
> >     seems to slow down, for gluster version 11 there has
> >     been no minor releases, we are still on 11.0 and I have
> >     not found any references to 11.1.
> >     There is a milestone called 12 but it seems to be
> >     stale.
> >     I have hit the issue:
> >     https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/4085
> >     <https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/4085>
> >     that seems to have no sollution.
> >     I noticed when version 11 was released that you
> >     could not bump OP version to 11 and reported this,
> >     but this is still not available.
> >
> >     I am just wondering if I am missing something here?
> >
> >     We have been using gluster for many years in production
> >     and I think that gluster is great!! It has served as well over
> >     the years and we have seen some great improvments
> >     of stabilility and speed increase.
> >
> >     So is there something going on or have I got
> >     the wrong impression (and feeling)?
> >
> >     Best regards
> >     Marcus
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