To be honest, despite the slowed pace of development, I've had very good
results with GlusterFS and, while it's not perfect, I consider it to be
stable enough for heavy production use. The occasional glitches here
and there are generally fixable without any downtime, at least in my
environment. I'd love to see it progress further - there are features
that would be very helpful - but even if nothing but security updates
happened for a long time, I'd still rather use GlusterFS than Ceph.
It's feature-complete enough for me and the failover cases for it are
much better IMHO than Ceph.
Warm Regards,
Kyle Maas
On 7/10/24 09:42, Ronny Adsetts wrote:
Hi,
We'll continue to use Gluster whilst we can and remain hopeful that a community will slowly form around the project. These things can take time I guess/hope.
I appreciate the simplicity of Gluster and it works well for our use case - we have a small distribute/replicate storage cluster backing our KVM and iSCSI data.
I've looked at Ceph a number of times but the complexity of it doesn't fill me with joy. I think something that complex is going to fall to pieces unless you really understand what you're doing and that's a big undertaking.
Ronny
Ilias Chasapakis forumZFD wrote on 09/07/2024 06:53:
Hi, we at forumZFD are currently experiencing problems similar to
those mentioned here on the mailing list especially on the latest
messages.
Our gluster just doesn't heal all entries and "manual" healing is
long and tedious. Entries accumulate in time and we have to do
regular cleanups that take long and are risky. Despite changing
available options with different combinations of values, the problem
persists. So we thought, "let's go to the community meeting" if not
much is happening here on the list. We are at the end of our
knowledge and can therefore no longer contribute much to the list.
Unfortunately, nobody was at the community meeting. Somehow we have
the feeling that there is no one left in the community or in the
project who is interested in fixing the basics of Gluster (namely the
healing). Is that the case and is gluster really end of life?
We appreciate a lot the contributions in the last few years and all
the work done. As well as for the honest efforts to give a hand. But
would be good to have an orientation on the status of the project
itself.
Many thanks in advance for any replies.
Ilias
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