On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:44:06 -0400 Jeff Darcy <jdarcy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/22/2013 06:08 PM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > Why is it you cannot accept that it should be a _filesystem_, and nothing else? > > It would have been a lot better to care about stability, keep it simple and > > feel fine. Concentrate on the strength (client based replication setups) and > > forget the rest. > > "Just a filesystem" has historically been an obstacle to deployment of > distributed filesystems, and just doesn't cut it any more. It's > important to have a coherent notion of which servers are up and which > protocol versions they can accept. It's essential for configuration > changes to be coordinated and communicated across the cluster, if those > changes are to be non-disruptive, and that's part of glusterd's job. It > also handles process management (both regular brick daemons and > maintenance-related tasks), quorum enforcement, and other functions. > The trend is for distributed systems to become more autonomous, not less so. > > If you want to run things in a 2.x fashion, feel free. Volfiles still > work, and will continue to do so, though you'll be giving up a lot of > functionality that way. Nobody else is asking us to turn back the clock > and throw away functionality. Whatever the problems might be with > glusterd's implementation, the solutions lie ahead of us. What's behind > us should and will still that way. Your current path is as wrong as bringing up an all-in-one solution, remember the gluster distro? It was the same story and vanished for very good reasons. Your problem with complexity is not distribution of vol-files. Read the list, almost nobody ever complained about that. Instead the list is full of people searching for the best (i.e. optimized) _content_ of the volfiles for their respective setup. So the automated distribution of the vol-files does not help the majority at all. I accept there may be a small minority for this, and maybe they paid for it. But the main problem with glusterfs is that it does not detect the best setup of translators _by itself_. So iff you want to really help people create a vol-file-creator that spits out the best possible configuration for a user-defined setup by asking _few_ _easy_ user questions. -- Regards, Stephan
