Liam Slusser wrote: > Thanks for the update Anand. > > Funny you mention unfs3. Just today one of our engineers at work setup > unfs3 against our large production gluster cluster and, so far, it has > been very good. I just was reading up on your modified booster version > and will also give that a try also. > > I'm looking forward to testing out the modified unfs3 and the native nfs > protocol translator! > I'd suggest waiting till Jun 23-24 for 2.0.3 to come out. That has all the improvements/fixes to booster and libglusterfsclient, in order to get unfs3 to work properly. -Shehjar > Thanks! > > ls > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Anand Babu <ab at gluster.com > <mailto:ab at gluster.com>> wrote: > > We made good progress with unfs3 integration using booster model. > GlusterFS > and unfs3 (modified version) will run in single address space using > booster library. > This feature is scheduled for 2.1. We will try to have a pre-release > available > soon (in weeks). GlusterFS v2.2 will have a native NFS protocol > translator. > > iSCSI exporting requires mmap support. You can create image files > and losetup them > as devices. Then it will be possible to export as iSCSI volumes. We > just fixed > a bug that caused poor mmap write performance. Work is on the way. > We will keep > you updated. > > -- > Anand Babu Periasamy > GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 > Blog [http://unlocksmith.org] > GlusterFS [http://www.gluster.org] > GNU/Linux [http://www.gnu.org] > > > Liam Slusser wrote: > > Jonathan, > You can export a Gluster mount via a client with a NFS server > however the performance is pretty poor. As far as i know there > is no way to export it with iSCSI. > Your best option is to use a single/dual Linux/Solaris iscsi > server to boot strap all your systems in xenServer and then use > Gluster and fuse to mount your /data drive once the system is up > and running. > liam > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Jonathan Bayles > <jbayles at readytechs.com <mailto:jbayles at readytechs.com> > <mailto:jbayles at readytechs.com <mailto:jbayles at readytechs.com>>> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am attempting to prevent my company from having to buy a SAN to > backend our virtualization platform(xenServer). Right now we > have a > light workload and 4 dell 2950's (6disks, 1 controller each) to > leverage against the storage side. I like what I see in regard to > the "Distributed Replicated Storage" where you essentially > create a > RAID 10 of bricks. This would work very well for me. The question > is, how do I serve this storage paradigm to a front end that's > expecting an NFS share or an iSCSI target? Does gluster > enable me to > access the entire cluster from a single IP? Or is it something I > could run on a centos cluster (luci and ricci) and use the > cluster > suite to present the glustered file system in the form of an > NFS share? > > Let me back up and state my needs/assumptions: > > * A storage cluster with the capacity equal to at least 1 > node(assuming all nodes are the same). > > * I need to be able to lose/take down any one brick in the > cluster > at any time without a loss of data. > > * I need more than the throughput of a single server, if not in > overall speed, then in width. > > * I need to be able to add more bricks in and have the > expectation > of increased storage capacity and throughput. > > * I need to present the storage as a single entity as an NFS > share > or a iSCSI target. > > If there are any existing models out there please point me > too them, > I don't mind doing the work I just don't want to re-invent the > wheel. Thanks in advance for your time and effort, I know > what its > like to have to answer newbie questions! > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org <mailto:Gluster-users at gluster.org> > <mailto:Gluster-users at gluster.org > <mailto:Gluster-users at gluster.org>> > > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org <mailto:Gluster-users at gluster.org> > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
