Hello Yann, In fact, yes, it has been tested: I tried to install it on a QNAP TS-110 about a year ago. It was a small disaster, that eventually led me to start working on my own distributed file system. Not to discredit GlusterFS: it just simply is not suited for this architecture, apparently. At least when I tried, it was not. I think it was best illustrated by a private e-mail from one of the devs to my bugreports and patches for this arch: "We are curious to know the purpose of using glusterfs - a clustered filesystem - on an embedded systems platform." To be honest: I consider this a good thing. GlusterFS sounds like it is doing a very good job in the area it was designed for: high performance computer clusters (right?). The price I have to pay for this dedication (namely: not being able to use GlusterFS myself) is one that I have to bear: the world is better off this way, I would guess. Anyway. My point is just: I abandoned GlusterFS for ARM and started development of my own, much more general purpose, "distributed FS", with compatibility as a higher requirement than cluster performance, orthogonal to GlusterFS instead of competing with it (why would I, anyway). I hope this does not sound tongue in cheek: I definitely do not intend it to. I mean it: I love the fact that GlusterFS is doing good and I find it a pitty that it was not suitable for my ends. Creating new distributed filesystems is not my favourite pass-time (maybe it secretly is). Greetings, Hraban Luyat 2010/9/29 Yann Dupont <Yann.Dupont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello. I'm trying glusterfs 3.1 Beta on small servers (pogoplugs) > > root@tom:/opt/gluster/sbin# ./glusterfsd > glusterfsd: mem-pool.c:280: __gf_free: Assertion `0' failed. > Aborted (core dumped) > > those puppies have only 128 MB of ram, maybe this is the cause ?? > > root@tom:/opt/gluster/sbin# arch > armv5tel > > Processor : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) > BogoMIPS : 1192.75 > Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp > CPU implementer : 0x56 > CPU architecture: 5TE > CPU variant : 0x2 > CPU part : 0x131 > CPU revision : 1 > > Hardware : Marvell SheevaPlug Reference Board > Revision : 0000 > Serial : 0000000000000000 > > > on x86, I don't have this bug (compiled from same source) > > > > -- > Yann Dupont - Service IRTS, DSI Université de Nantes > Tel : 02.51.12.53.91 - Mail/Jabber : Yann.Dupont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >
