Agreed 100% - For Gluster, this makes the most sense for now. It has to establish itself as reliable and consistent, before it adds bells and whistles. On Mar 21, 2011, at 2:05 AM, R.C. wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
