I hope that, before moving development resources to the WAN extension, some more urgent features in the mainline will be implemented; one for all: automatic self-heal startup. IMMO (In My Modest Opinion) Raf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Count Zero" <countz at gmail.com> To: "Brent Clark" <brentgclarklist at gmail.com> Cc: <gluster-users at gluster.org> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 9:49 PM Subject: Re: Gluster geo location setup? > 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 >
