As the GlusterFest winds down today, I wanted to write a few words about GlusterFS 3.4 and the beta that was just released yesterday. You may have noticed the news release from Red Hat: The Red Hat Storage team would like to congratulate the Gluster Community on the beta release of GlusterFS 3.4. With new […]
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GlusterFS is Ready for OpenStack
Amidst the madness of the OpenStack Summit a couple of weeks ago, you could be forgiven for not seeing a Red Hat announcement about GlusterFS being “OpenStack-ready”. You may wonder, what exactly do we mean by “OpenStack-ready”? The first thing to understand is that storage in OpenStack is multifaceted. It could mean applications storing objects […]
Introducing the Gluster Community Forge
Today, I’m happy to finally unveil something that we’ve been working on for a couple of months now: the Gluster Community Forge. We noticed some time ago that there were several projects out on the internet that extended GlusterFS, and we thought it would be nice to give them a home, where users could find [...]
The Death of Proprietary Software
Whenever I give talks at conferences, there’s always one particular topic I make sure to bring up. I’ll ask the audience, “Quick, name a new proprietary enterprise software product to have gained ubiquity in the data center over the last 12 months.” I’ll wait a few seconds, and then, “Ok, 24 months.” After a brief [...]
New Release: GlusterFS 3.4alpha
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 [...]
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
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