Please take your pro/con discussion of package management off line. This is a gluster discussion list, not a sysadmin discussion list. ^C Steve wrote: > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- >> Datum: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:36:42 +0100 >> Von: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at ithnet.com> >> An: Ian Rogers <ian.rogers at contactclean.com> >> CC: gluster-users at gluster.org >> Betreff: 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 rpm that is outdated anyways (be it 2.0.9 or 3.0.2)?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... >> > Sorry Stephan. But that is (sorry to write that): Bullshit. > The source of Gusterfs is not small at all. > > Regarding installing source vs RPM: Well... I install EVERYTHING from source (except if it is a closed source application). But I would never install from source if I would use a system that has RPM as their packaging system. Then I would still build RPMS and install RPMS. It's not difficult to make GlusterFS RPMS. Anyway... if you install everything from source by using "./configure ; make ; make install" then you probably have a ultra low amount of systems that you need to take care of (try doing that thing on many systems and still keep track what you have installed and what not). I would never ever pollute a system with "./configure ; make ; make install". There is a reason for packaging systems (RPM, DEB and friends). I use btw Gentoo Linux and installing from source is part of the idea behind Gentoo Linux. > > >> -- >> Regards, >> Stephan >> > Steve > > >> 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 >
