+1 for greater robustness too. On Mar 20, 2011 11:27 PM, "Count Zero" <countz at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
