Jens - Please don't think we've forgotten your feddback, I am updating the document here - http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/systems-engineering/Introduction_to_Gluster.pdf for Gluster 3.1 and with the information you requested. As soon as I have draft ready I'll send it to you, if you could give me some feedback I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.carl at gmail.com From: "Jens Mueller" <supidupi007 at googlemail.com> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Friday, November 5, 2010 9:10:12 PM Subject: Gluster 3.1: Newbie First Steps Questions Hello, first of all. Gluster seems to be an absolutely great product. Easy to use and very very helpfull in what it does. But I am a newbie starting with version 3.1. I read the whole documentation in the wiki but still do not know what to do: 1.) Where are the concepts of Gluster explained? I did not find anything: What exaclty are "bricks", what exactly are "volumes", what are "exports" and so on. It would be kind of someone can explain them to me. => This would be a great aswer for the wiki, too!! 2.) I installed gluster as described on the wiki... What are the files in /etc/glusterfs for: Namely glusterd.vol glusterfsd.vol.sample glusterfs.vol.sample. Are they sample samples for glusterd.vol or are they dedicated files (they are named other with the "fs" in the name) that get loaded by another process? What do the sections volume management end-volume volume brick end-volume volume server end-volume stand for? Interestingly the default install will only create the first section "volumen management". Are the latter ones created by some CLI management programs or can they only be edited manually? 3.) Where is a list of Parameters that describes all the settings in these config files? (I want and need to install it on the command line, not the GUI you provide) 4.) What do I need to do to install the "server", when NOT using the GUI installer. Is it sufficient only editing the forementioned glusterd.vol config file? Or do I need to install any other programs? I only installed : http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.1/LATEST/Debian/glusterfs_3.1.0-1_amd64.deb But its nowhere explained what the so called "Storage Plattform" (the other download provided) does: Is the "Storate Plattform Downlaod" only the GUI to administer a "Server"? Or does the respective download also include the "command line server /daemon"? As decribed above, I downloaded and installed the debian package but I do not know if this package also contained the server AND the client or only the client. Help would be very much appreciated. All my questions will help newbies to get up started quickly. Thanks Jens _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
