Port Request: gluster

Mon Mar 16 06:16:15 PDT 2009

Pretty rough actually.

I'm still trying to get replication understood/working.

They provide lots of "file" examples, but I would like more of a "theory/application" type of documentation.

There should be a header at the beginning of their pages that say:

These files allow directory /x/y/z on server 01 to be replicated to /mnt/x/y/z on server 02.

The differences in the files do these things:  At line <#> ......

Also, preparation for the mount points (chmod 1777 <mount> ) is covered elsewhere.

It seems that they really need to take a breath, standardize their documentation process.  They need to put line numbers in on the "files" and explain what the block does and what some of the more interesting bits do.

Also, servers talking to each other is great and the HA possibility is also.  However, again, the documentation is lacking.

Anyhow, charging forward.  I hope to have something that works soon.  I'm close and it is pretty slick on how to build things and layer functionality.

P.

Paul Pathiakis
UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer
Iron Mountain Digital
120 Turnpike Rd.
Southborough, MA 01772

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-----Original Message-----
From: timur at bat.ru [mailto:timur at bat.ru] On Behalf Of Timur I. Bakeyev
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:16 PM
To: Pathiakis, Paul
Cc: Jim Riggs; David N; ports at freebsd.org; Steven Kreuzer
Subject: Re: Port Request: gluster

Hi, Paul!

I'm working on it for quite a while, but still there are some rough
edges. What is your user experience with it?

With regards,
Timur.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Pathiakis, Paul
<Paul.Pathiakis at ironmountain.com> wrote:
> Hi to all!
>
> Has anything progressed on this?
>
> I'm actually building it by hand on a couple of 7.1 machines.  I expect
> it will be interesting.
>
> I still look forward to the port. :-)
>
> Thank you!
>
> Paul Pathiakis
> UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer
> Iron Mountain Digital
> 120 Turnpike Rd.
> Southborough, MA 01772
>
>
> Microsoft - Where do you want to go today?
> Linux - Where do you want to go tomorrow?
> FreeBSD - Will you guys come on already?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Riggs [mailto:ports at christianserving.org]
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:31 PM
> To: David N
> Cc: Pathiakis, Paul; ports at freebsd.org; Steven Kreuzer
> Subject: Re: Port Request: gluster
>
> On 02/20/2009 11:40, David N wrote:
>> 2009/2/21 Pathiakis, Paul<Paul.Pathiakis at ironmountain.com>:
>>> Steven,
>>>
>>> I'm going to start testing it in a pre-production environment.  It
> seems
>>> so straightforward, integrates with ZFS, it has simple configuration
>>> files, all around, I'm hoping that it garners more
>>> clustering/replication for FreeBSD.  Many of the other solutions are
>>> quite tedious and setup complexity is quite annoying.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Steven Kreuzer [mailto:steven at hudson-trading.com] On Behalf Of
>>> Steven Kreuzer
>>> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:30 AM
>>> To: Pathiakis, Paul
>>> Cc: ports at freebsd.org
>>> Subject: Re: Port Request: gluster
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 20, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Pathiakis, Paul wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to request that the gluster clustering/filesystem software
> be
>>>> ported and supported.  This looks to be a very simple,
> straightforward
>>>> and viable clustering solution which FreeBSD has always lacked.
>>> This looks like a very interesting project. I might be able to take
>>> some time
>>> over the weekend and create a port for this.
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, have you been using it in production? If so, can
> you
>>> describe your setup
>>> and your experience with it?
>>>
>>> Steven Kreuzer
>>> http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer
>>>
>> Looks promising
>> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_on_BSD
>
>
> Several weeks ago I actually created a port for glusterfs as I was
> hoping to implement it myself.  I'll have to see if I saved any of my
> work.  I actually had a working port, but I may have dumped it.  I will
> be happy to submit it if I can find it.  I just don't know that I will
> be able to maintain it.
>
> A couple of notes from what I found:
>
> 1. It does not yet integrate with FreeBSD's implementation of ZFS (at
> least not in 7.x) due to the lack of ACL support.  You can use it with a
> UFS partition or a UFS zvol.  (Using a zvol requires a patch pjd@
> recommended for performance improvements.)
>
> 2. Performance in my setup was not very good over 2x1Gb LAGG.  It might
> be better over a faster, dedicated channel of some type.
>
> - Jim
>
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