I've just done part one of a writeup of my EC2 gluster LAMP installation at http://www.sirgroane.net/2010/03/distributed-file-system-on-amazon-ec2/ - may or may not be useful to you :-) Ian On 24/03/2010 17:09, Oliver Hoffmann wrote: > Yes, that's an idea. Thanx. That will be important for all the debian > clients, mostly lenny. > > I think waiting and testing a month is quite ok though. > > >> To have glusterfs 3.0.3 on ubuntu 9.10 you can also just install the >> debian package for gluster 3.0.3 with dpkg -i. >> >> http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/glusterfs >> >> But then 10.04 is only a month away, so depends how much of a rush >> your in! >> >> >> >> On Wednesday 24 Mar 2010 16:45:40 Oliver Hoffmann wrote: >> >>> Haha, there are loads of Linux distributions out there and even >>> strange OSes like *BSD or windooze or what's it called? ;-) >>> >>> I tried out Gentoo a while ago but I droped it because all the >>> compiling took way too long. The big plus here is the big minus on >>> debian like systems. The current Ubuntu 9.10 for example has >>> glusterfs 2.0.9, period. If you want to have 3.0.2 then you have to >>> wait for Ubuntu 10.04 or you compile it. >>> But now that we have (almost) 10.04 with 3.0.2 I'll take this way. >>> Having such a system up and running on recent hardware is a matter >>> of maybe 10 or 20 minutes. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 22/03/2010 17:59, Oliver Hoffmann wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I just made some tests on two old machines using Ubuntu 10.4 >>>>> (server i386) with fuse-2.7.4glfs11 and glusterfs-3.0.3. At a >>>>> first glance it seems to be OK. >>>>> The next step is deploying a system which could be used for >>>>> production. What would you suggest? Ubuntu 10.4 (server 64bit) >>>>> is my first choice because of LTS. Whatsoever, I think it is >>>>> more the version of glusterfs which makes it stable or not, >>>>> isn't it? In the end I'd like to have a distributed& >>>>> replicated storage which provides data for a bunch of >>>>> (virtualized) LAMPS. >>>>> >>>>> TIA for your recommendations! >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I'm intrigued. I had not realised that there were other options >>>> than Gentoo for use on a server?! (Bang up to date, flexible >>>> configuration and strong support of various virtualisation >>>> solutions. Slight negative in update speeds, but can be >>>> mitigated by using a binary package cache) >>>> >>>> Will try out those new fangled options you suggested above, but in >>>> the meantime have a look at Gentoo (at least if you are fairly >>>> confident with your linux skills). Big plug for linux-vservers >>>> also, especially in combination with some custom server profiles >>>> to define required software versions and options >>>> >>>> Good luck >>>> >>>> Ed W >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Gluster-users mailing list >>>> Gluster-users at gluster.org >>>> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gluster-users mailing list >>> Gluster-users at gluster.org >>> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >>> >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -- www.ContactClean.com Making changing email address as easy as clicking a mouse. Helping you keep in touch.
