Re: [Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

2013-03-25 Thread Vidar Hokstad
After reading through this thread, I feel compelled to make some comments. I'm a user. On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Jeff Darcy jda...@redhat.com wrote: During the Bangalore architects' summit a couple of weeks ago, there was a discussion about making most functions of glusterd into

[Gluster-devel] Fwd: Change in glusterfs[master]: config: better (i.e. more portable) test for libxml2

2013-03-25 Thread John Mark Walker
Please review and comment. Original Message Subject: Change in glusterfs[master]: config: better (i.e. more portable) test for libxml2 From: Kaleb KEITHLEY (Code Review) r...@dev.gluster.com To: CC: Kaleb KEITHLEY has uploaded a new change for review. Change subject:

Re: [Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

2013-03-25 Thread Jeff Darcy
On 03/25/2013 05:38 AM, Vidar Hokstad wrote: I see a number of complaints about this as some sort of admission of failure. I wouldn't quite characterize it as failure. It does work, after all. However, glusterd has kind of reached its limits. Moving it forward has become increasingly

Re: [Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

2013-03-25 Thread Vidar Hokstad
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Jeff Darcy jda...@redhat.com wrote: I'm a little surprised by the positive reactions to the Gluster on Gluster approach. Even though Kaleb and I considered it for HekaFS, it's still a bit of a hack. In particular, we'd still have to solve the problems of

Re: [Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

2013-03-25 Thread Jeff Darcy
On 03/25/2013 10:53 AM, Vidar Hokstad wrote: as long as the chosen option doesn't make day to day troubleshooting and maintenance much harder... Completely agree. For a large deployment I agree you _need_ to know those kind of things, but for a small one I'd be inclined to just make every

Re: [Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

2013-03-25 Thread Jeff Darcy
On 03/25/2013 12:44 PM, Alex Attarian wrote: Adding more complexity means only making it a nightmare for administrators. I've said this times and times and I will say it again, your documentation has always been bad, out of respect I'm not calling it shit. If you had taken your time and grabbed

Re: [Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

2013-03-25 Thread Jeff Darcy
On 03/25/2013 02:24 PM, John Mark Walker wrote: I would also point out that, as the community lead, I would very much welcome alternative solutions to be played out on gluster.org I don't think they'll be successful, but what do I know. I just want to make it clear that alternative solutions

Re: [Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

2013-03-25 Thread Alex Attarian
All and all what I'm asking is to find a way to keep the simplicity, not just maintaining things, but having an overview of things. So when something breaks no one has to go through multiple services to figure out where the problem is. We all know why gluster was such a success, simple and easy to

Re: [Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

2013-03-25 Thread Anand Babu Periasamy
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Justin Clift jcl...@redhat.com wrote: On 23/03/2013, at 11:58 PM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote: snip (4) Auto-generated volume spec is too limiting. There are other useful translators, but not even included (but disabled) by default. Volume spec file does not

Re: [Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

2013-03-25 Thread Anand Babu Periasamy
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:24 AM, John Mark Walker johnm...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - On 03/25/2013 12:44 PM, Alex Attarian wrote: If you disagree with the very idea of having glusterd, then *we have nothing to talk about*. If you appreciate the infrastructure it

Re: [Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

2013-03-25 Thread Anand Babu Periasamy
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Jeff Darcy jda...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/25/2013 05:38 AM, Vidar Hokstad wrote: I see a number of complaints about this as some sort of admission of failure. I wouldn't quite characterize it as failure. It does work, after all. However, glusterd has kind of

Re: [Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

2013-03-25 Thread Anand Babu Periasamy
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Justin Clift jcl...@redhat.com wrote: On 24/03/2013, at 8:55 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: snip ... the most important question: the performance tuning. We all know that glusterfs can be unbelievably slow if you tuned the wrong switches. And really,

Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Update: Support for GLUSTERFS storage domain in VDSM oVirt available now !

2013-03-25 Thread Deepak C Shetty
Quick Update: Ability to create GLUSTERFS_DOMAIN from oVirt web UI is now upstream. http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/8834/ http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/8983/ http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/13176/ This provides the capability to create a new DC, cluster of type GLUSTERFS, ability to add new host to