Re: State of Gluster project

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Il 2020-06-21 14:20 Strahil Nikolov ha scritto:
With  every community project ,  you are in the position  of a Betta
Tester  - no matter Fedora,  Gluster  or CEPH. So far  ,  I had
issues with upstream  projects only diring and immediately after
patching  - but this is properly mitigated  with a  reasonable
patching strategy (patch  test environment and several months later
patch prod with the same repos).
Enterprise  Linux breaks (and alot) having 10-times more  users and
use  cases,  so you cannot expect to start to use  Gluster  and assume
that a  free  peoject won't break at all.
Our part in this project is to help the devs to create a test case for
our workload ,  so  regressions will be reduced to minimum.

Well, this is true, and both devs & community deserve a big thanks for all the work done.

In the past 2  years,  we  got 2  major  issues with VMware VSAN and 1
 major  issue  with  a Enterprise Storage cluster (both solutions are
quite  expensive)  - so  I always recommend proper  testing  of your
software .

Interesting, I am almost tempted to ask you what issue you had with vSAN, but this is not the right mailing list ;)

From my observations,  almost nobody  is complaining about Ganesha in
the mailing list -> 50% are  having issues  with geo replication,20%
are  having issues with small file performance and the rest have
issues with very old version of gluster  -> v5 or older.

Mmm, I would swear to have read quite a few posts where the problem was solved by migrating away from NFS Ganesha. Still, for hyperconverged setup a problem remains: NFS on loopback/localhost is not 100% supported (or, at least, RH is not willing to declare it supportable/production ready [1]). A fuse mount would be the more natural way to access the underlying data.

I  can't say that a  replace-brick  on a 'replica  3' volume is more
riskier  than a rebuild  of a raid,  but I have noticed that nobody is
 following Red Hat's  guide  to use  either:
-  a  Raid6  of 12  Disks (2-3  TB  big)
-  a Raid10  of  12  Disks (2-3  TB big)
-  JBOD disks in 'replica  3' mode (i'm not sure about the size  RH
recommends,  most probably 2-3 TB)
 So far,  I didn' have the opportunity to run on JBODs.

For the RAID6/10 setup, I found no issues: simply replace the broken disk without involing Gluster at all. However, this also means facing the "iops wall" I described earlier for single-brick node. Going full-Guster with JBODs would be interesting from a performance standpoint, but this complicate eventual recovery from bad disks.

Does someone use Gluster in JBOD mode? If so, can you share your experience?
Thanks.

[1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/22231 (accound required)
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489889 (old, but I can not find anything newer)

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