[Gluster-users] Glusterfs community status

[Ronny Adsetts]

Hi,

We'll continue to use Gluster whilst we can and remain hopeful that a community will slowly form around the project. These things can take time I guess/hope.

I appreciate the simplicity of Gluster and it works well for our use case - we have a small distribute/replicate storage cluster backing our KVM and iSCSI data.

I've looked at Ceph a number of times but the complexity of it doesn't fill me with joy. I think something that complex is going to fall to pieces unless you really understand what you're doing and that's a big undertaking.

Ronny


Ilias Chasapakis forumZFD wrote on 09/07/2024 06:53:
> Hi, we at forumZFD are currently experiencing problems similar to
> those mentioned here on the mailing list especially on the latest
> messages.
> 
> Our gluster just doesn't heal all entries and "manual" healing is
> long and tedious. Entries accumulate in time and we have to do
> regular cleanups that take long and are risky.  Despite changing
> available options with different combinations of values, the problem
> persists. So we thought, "let's go to the community meeting" if not
> much is happening here on the list. We are at the end of our
> knowledge and can therefore no longer contribute much to the list.
> Unfortunately, nobody was at the community meeting. Somehow we have
> the feeling that there is no one left in the community or in the
> project who is interested in fixing the basics of Gluster (namely the
> healing). Is that the case and is gluster really end of life?
> 
> We appreciate a lot the contributions in the last few years and all
> the work done. As well as for the honest efforts to give a hand. But
> would be good to have an orientation on the status of the project
> itself.
> 
> Many thanks in advance for any replies.
> 
> Ilias

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