Thanks for your thanks :-) Part 2 here http://www.sirgroane.net/2010/03/tuning-glusterfs-for-apache-on-ec2/ Ian On 25/03/2010 05:02, Tejas N. Bhise wrote: > Ian, > > Thanks a lot for the article. Appreciate it. Gluster needs such contributions for larger adoption. > > I would encourage and request everyone to write about their experiences, use cases, applications using > Gluster etc. so others who are using the same applications will be encouraged to try out Gluster. > > Regards, > Tejas. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian Rogers"<ian.rogers at contactclean.com> > To: gluster-users at gluster.org > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:44:32 PM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi > Subject: Re: Setup for production - which one would you choose? > > > 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 >> >> > >
