It’s that time again! Time to start prepping for a new release of GlusterFS, in this case, 3.4. If you haven’t checked it out yet, grab a source tarball and tell us how it goes. There are also community builds showing up on download.gluster.org for Ubuntu, Fedora and EPEL. Additionally, the Git repo has now [...]
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Linked List Topology with GlusterFS
Here’s a nice post about creating a linked list topology for a distributed-replicated setup. The idea is that it is easier to add a single server to a replicated volume by spending a bit of extra time prepping a linked list of bricks. The default topology would leave the author with the need of adding [...]
Extending GlusterFS with Python (Linux Journal)
Jeff Darcy, Gluster developer extraordinaire with Red Hat, has written an article all about extending our favorite distributed storage system with Python, and he gets into a fair bit of detail with Glupy, his project for implementing new features in GlusterFS with Python. Glupy does this by utilizing GlusterFS’ established translator API, which you can [...]
Integration with KVM/QEMU
By now, you may have heard about the recent work being done to integrate GlusterFS with QEMU. The engineers at IBM’s Linux Technology Center in Bangalore deserve a lot of credit for their work here. Bharata Rao, Deepak Shetty and Mohan Kumar have been hard at work implementing a GlusterFS device driver for QEMU that [...]
Gluster Community Office Hours – October 26, 2012
Gluster Community Office Hours - October 26, 2012. Today, Eco went through some common troubleshooting tips and tricks, with lots of great information on display. Follow along from this page as Eco demonstrates how to avoid some common gotchas: http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Basic_Gluster_Troubleshooting
Gluster Community Office Hours
We started a new weekly session for community office hours. Today, Eco Willson walked through a getting started basic install. If you have topics in mind that you would like to see us cover in future editions, let us know on the gluster-users mailing list or on #gluster on irc.freenode.net. As always, find out more… Continue reading Gluster Community Office Hours
Download Server is Down – Building a Replacement
Greetings, If you’ve been trying to access the download server, I’m afraid it continues to be offline. We will try to have a replacement up and running by tomorrow. In the meantime, you can still access release tarballs via bits.gluster.com or from our GitHub repo. And before anyone asks: no, this was not a filesystem [...]
DNS Switchover Today
Greetings, If you’ve noticed some wonky behavior in the mailing lists this morning, it’s due to a DNS switchover. Unfortunately, we have to wait for the reverse DNS to be implemented before everyone can get mail sent to the gluster.org lists. Please hold tight – thanks!
Podcast with the Cloud Evangelist (Richard Morrell) and John Mark
I forgot to post this at the time, but I had a lovely conversation with Richard Morrell, aka the “Cloud Evangelist” at Red Hat’s UK office. Richard is a jolly bloke with a fair bit to say on all things cloud. We talked about GlusterFS, the Gluster community, and also about Red Hat’s upcoming Developer [...]
Meet Eco Willson, Gluster Community Technical Lead
If you were a customer of Gluster, Inc. back in the day, you may already be familiar with Eco’s handiwork. I’m happy to report that he’s now full-time on the community side, writing docs, doing meetups and conferences, and doing everything it takes to teach users and developers how to fish. Here’s a video of [...]
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