On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:45:16PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I am new to Gluster and checking the Wiki I see that one can request > features or to have the order changed. Welcome! > Where is the best place to ask for features/order change? Avati asked for suggestions a few days ago (on this list), and there's some traffic on IRC (#gluster) as well. For Avati's request, please consult the mailing list archive (May 1). > I tried to write to support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and got a note that the message > was waiting for moderator approval but never got anything beyond that. > > Where I work we are interested in Gluster but we are a FreeBSD shop. > We would like to see FreeBSD support in the roadmap. Ahum, are you talking about gluster or glusterfs? Two different cups of tea... > Also we would like to know if there is , or will be commercial support for > the product. I suppose it's too early to ask for commercial support yet (given that the first code checkin happened less than 9 months ago)... but nobody will stop you to ask for it :-) Talking about requests: I re-read my bunch of printouts last weekend, and have some suggestions as well (Avati, are you there?): - to have the servers know about each other helps to avoid - or properly handle - split-brain situations. One might imagine networks with multiple core switches - if the interconnect between them breaks, bad things may happen. - in any case, and by any means, one should keep the config as symmetrical as possible. so if a bunch of servers is configured for unify, afr or the like, they should all use the same config (to avoid typos in a single copy), and automagically detect that a reference to a server can be resolved locally. autofs is a good example for such behaviour: a NFS mount would be replaced by a local bind mount. - the documentation of the translators (as of two weeks ago)needs some restructuring - it's of little use only to know that the translators are there (I can look into the xlator/ subdirectory if I want to know), more important would be a thorough description of the possible options (and trashcan is completely missing). I know, it's a Wiki, and I might add stuff myself, but how can I if I don't know? Cheers Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/merlin/ * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} No Word/PPT mails - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
