***UPDATE: Due to weather-related flight cancelations and rebooking, we had to push this back to Thursday, January 23, at noon PST/3pm EST/20:00 GMT*** James Shubin is known in the Gluster community for his work on the Puppet-Gluster module. Recently, he’s begun to create powerful cocktails of Puppet and Vagrant to create recipes for automated Gluster […]
GlusterFest Weekend is Here – Jan 17 – 20
As I mentioned yesterday, the GlusterFest is nigh. This time, we’ll break out testing into two types: Performance testing Feature testing To learn about the GlusterFest and what it is, visit the GlusterFest home at gluster.org/gfest Remember that if you file a bug that is verified by the Gluster QE team, you’ll win a t-shirt […]
GlusterFS 3.5 Beta + GlusterFest Weekend
The first GlusterFS 3.5 Beta is here! See what features made it in over at the 3.5 planning page. Here are some of the marquee features: File Snapshot Quota Scalability Brick Failure Detection On-wire Compression and Decompression Disk Encryption With this first beta, we’ll have the next weekend GlusterFest! We’ll kick it off on Friday, […]
Gluster Hangout with Daniel Mons from Cutting Edge
Dan Mons came across GlusterFS at his job with Cutting Edge, a VFX company. He needed lots of storage space that was available to many different users – and he needed it to be able to expand as he needed. That it was free and ran on commodity systems was a big plus. Come join […]
Hangout with Semiosis (Louis Z) Today – Gluster on AWS, Java Filesystem and more
In about 90 minutes, Louis Zuckerman and I will be “hanging out” and talking about how he came to deploy GlusterFS on AWS, and why he’d developing a Java Filesystem integration with GlusterFS. I’ll post the embedded YouTube link here when we’re about to go live. Hangout starts at 11am EST, 8am PST, 16:00GMT – […]
Happy New Year – GlusterFS 3.4.2 has hit store shelves!
As we ring in the new year, we also ring in a new release – GlusterFS 3.4.2, available at your local download server! This is a maintenance release, fixing a few bugs, which you can read in the release notes. In addition to bug fixes, you’ll notice that we’re welcoming a new distribution to the […]
On Millennials and Special Snowflakes
I'm really sick and tired of all the boomer and gen X tsk tsk-ing those dreaded me-first millennials. All of these articles, which you've no doubt seen by now, follow a similar pattern: Start with a reference to "too much praise" and too much emphasis on self-esteem. Bonus points if the writer mentions "everyone gets… Continue reading On Millennials and Special Snowflakes
The Tyranny of the Clouds
Or “How I learned to start worrying and never trust the cloud.” The Clouderati have been derping for some time now about how we’re all going towards the public cloud and “private cloud” will soon become a distant, painful memory, much like electric generators filled the gap before power grids became the norm. They seem […]
It’s a GlusterFest Testing Weekend
If you’ve been keeping up with our weekly meetings and the 3.5 planning page, then you know that tomorrow, December 6, is the first testing “day” for 3.5. But since this is a Friday, we’re going to make the party last all weekend, through mid-day Monday. Here’s what you need to do: Take a look […]
THE NUTCRACKOLYPSE
Gather around, children, as I tell the tale of the... bum bum BUM... NUTCRACKOLYPSE! //slid.es/johnmarkwalker/thenutcrackolypse/embed
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