Yep, thanx. @Stephan: It is not a matter of knowing how use tar and make, but if you have a bunch of servers than you want to do an apt-get update/upgrade once in a while without compiling this piece of software on that server and another one on another server, etc. > It is hard to fully understand what you just wrote. If you are > suggesting that someone else's personal preferences (or company > objectives) are incorrect or misguided simply because they don't match > your own I'm trying to understand how your last post pertains to the > user forum for Gluster? There are plenty of reasons to prefer packages > over source installations but that academic conversation is also not > appropriate for this list. > > Cheers, > Benjamin > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org > [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Stephan von > Krawczynski > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:37 PM > To: Ian Rogers > Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org > Subject: Re: Setup for production - which one would you > choose? > > Ok, guys, honestly: it is allowed to learn (RMS fought for your right to > do so) > :-) > Really rarely in the open source universe you will find a piece of > software > that is as easy to compile and run as glusterfs. All you have to know > yourself > is how to use tar. Then enter the source directory and do "./configure ; > make ; > make install" What exactly is difficult to do? Why would you install > _some_ > rpm that is outdated anyways (be it 2.0.9 or 3.0.2)? > Please don't tell you configure and drive LAMP but can't build > glusterfs. > The docs for 5 apache config options are longer than the whole > glusterfs-source... > > -- > Regards, > Stephan > > PS: yes, I know it's the user-list. > > > > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:14:32 +0000 > Ian Rogers <ian.rogers at contactclean.com> wrote: > > >> 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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >
