Re: RPi (or something similar) cluster and GlusterFS - feedback?

[Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know that somw users do have a RPI Setup and the only drawback I know is the packaging is not always up to date.

What distro do you think to use on it ?

Best Regards,

Strahil Nikolov 

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 16:35, Philip Rhoades

<phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

People,

For many years (after some nasty experiences) I have been in the habit

of using a Fedora Work Station (which stays on but gets rebooted fairly

frequently) and a separate Fedora server (email-MTA, some Web sites etc)

which stays on for very long periods of time and only gets rebooted

infrequently.  I have other systems that get booted occasionally.  My

habit has been to backup / rsync important / critical data between the

regular WS and the main server as appropriate - this has allowed me on a

number of occasions to recover happily when hardware has failed, to get

going temporarily again on one or the other machine while I sort out the

problem.

More recently I have been thinking about building an ARM cluster with

Gluster that would hold all the data for both the WS and the main server

and any other WSs or servers I might need to run from time to time.  I

would still make use of an off-site backup anyway but I like the idea of

just being able to add another ARM device + SATA drive to the cluster to

create more data space.  I also thought I would go back to making use of

WSs that were basically just X-servers that booted from some sort of USB

stick but got the OS image from the cluster - this might be complicated

by the fact I now use Sway rather than X - but one problem at a time . .

Has anyone here set up a cluster something like this?  Have people any

suggestions about specific (Fedora) web pages / docs to look at?

I have been tracking CEPH for some time and while it looks interesting,

it seems overkill for what I am thinking of doing and more technically

difficult to support / debug etc.  I am thinking of starting the

exercise with 4 RPis each with an 8Tb SATA drive.

Thanks,

Phil.

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Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896

Cowra  NSW  2794

Australia

E-mail:  phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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