I looked at sector-sphere but it has same problem of having metadata servers etc. like other DFS systems like mogileFS has. It adds more moving parts and maintenance. Also, I have not been able to get hold of enough data to say sector-sphere is reliable and robust. On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Count Zero <countz at gmail.com> wrote: > As others responded, Gluster is not ready for WAN scenarios, and it is unclear if/when it will be... > I am following the Gluster project closely, and have been using it for a year now on various internal test clusters. > > What can work for you right now is a project called 'sector-sphere'. It is actually built with WAN in mind, is more secure than Gluster (uses encryption), and even supports a topology map, something Gluster does not do (yet). > > (And by the way, even when it IS finally announced in Gluster, then based on my experience with Gluster, I would be very wary to use the first version until a second or third version is released with bug fixes/improvements for the WAN mechanisms. Not trying to diss the technology, just being responsible and think you should be cautious and test things out thoroughly before pushing anything to production!). > > > On Mar 19, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Brent Clark wrote: > >> Hiya >> >> I would like to know if you can or if anyone is using Gluster in a geolocation setup for a Distributed filesystem sense. >> >> Reason I ask is. I got this two machines, and they are continents apart (Datacentre South Africa (Johannesburg) and Datacentre Germany). Currently Im using rsync to pull all updated and modified files. >> I was hoping I could use Gluster as a Active / Active Filesystem. >> >> If someone could share any thoughts or suggestions, it would be appreciated. >> Kind Regards >> Brent Clark >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >
