On Friday 12 November 2010 16:17:34 you wrote: > Just to add... > > My previous mailing list post of compiling glusterfs 3.1.0 on Ubuntu > Lucid 32bit: > http://www.mail-archive.com/gluster-users at gluster.org/msg03995.html > > As stated in that posting - it is not for the feint hearted - > definitely do not use in production until you have tested for a while > (in fact - do not use at all - unless you are a lil nutty like myself) > > Results... > > (Do not quote these as I did not throughly test) > > I managed to get short writes while using a 2 node replicated mirror > while using small files (may be related to a similar recent 64bit > issue) - this seemed rare though and only seemed to happen while > mounting via NFS. > > Native fuse mounting worked well and has a better degree of locking... > but on smaller systems (like VM's), you need at least todays standard > of minimum memory (approx 1GB+ ?) or you will start to thrash your > swap and things become bad. > > Test test and test... > > I love what glusterfs has to offer and can understand why they focus > their support on 64bit and I would upgrade my distros, but I use VM's > in Xen and 32bit VM's have a better performance on a 64 bit host than > a 64 bit VM would. Martin, thanks for the warning. They perform better? Why they do? I can understand that their focus is on x64 for server appliances, but i can't understand (and i hope someone will tell me why) that the native fuse client should work only on x32 without quirks. XCP is x32, and that's the problem here. > > I hope to be testing again... but taking more notes and doing more > consistent tests on the next release. > > So, once again... build and test... and test some more on a non > production cluster > > Martin > > On 13 November 2010 01:17, Deadpan110 <deadpan110 at gmail.com> wrote: > > It should work... but it is very unsupported by the devs... > > > > USE AT YOUR OWN RISK... > > > > I successfully used glusterfs 3.1.0 for a while on Ubuntu Lucid 32bit > > - the only problems i encountered are a few of the ones recently > > discussed in this mailing list for 64bit. > > > > I will be implementing it again soon - I hope! > > > > Martin > > > > On 13 November 2010 00:54, Christian Fischer > > > > <christian.fischer at easterngraphics.com> wrote: > >> On Friday 12 November 2010 11:29:52 Bernard Li wrote: > >>> Hi Stefano: > >>> > >>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Stefano Baronio > >>> > >>> <stefano.baronio at gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > is there a way to have a 32bit Glusterfs client? > >>> > >>> You can definitely build it yourself, but it is not officially > >>> supported by Gluster. They recommend you use GlusterFS on 64-bit > >>> architecture servers. > >> > >> Someone knows the reason for it? > >> Are problems to expect on 32bit architecture? > >> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Bernard > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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
