Re: [Gluster-users] couple separate issues: automounting and OpenOffice

2009-01-18 Thread Benjamin Karhan
A little birdy told me that Anand Avati said: ] > Problem #2: this one is strange... i have noticed that OpenOffice ] > (versions 2.0.4 and 2.3.0, at least, on CentOS 4 and 5 respectively) ] > fail to open files on GlusterFS mounts... instead returning the ] > following error: ] > ] >

[Gluster-users] POSIX compatibility

2009-01-18 Thread Filipe Maia
Hi, In the glusterfs FAQ(http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_FAQ) it says that glusterfs is fully POSIX compliant. I think this can be quite misleading because I think for example that read-write mmap is only supported on very recent linux kernels. POSIX locks also only work when using

Re: [Gluster-users] Missing files with unify 2.0.0rc1

2009-01-18 Thread Filipe Maia
The problem is easily reproduced by creating a volume with a couple of files and a symlink to a non existing file, and then exporting it and mounting it with unify starting with an empty namespace. Only part of the files will be created in the namespace (all those that readdir() returned before th

Re: [Gluster-users] gluster ha/replication/disaster recover(dr translator) wish list

2009-01-18 Thread Krishna Srinivas
Keith, We had discussion about a translator with functionality similar to what you have described. We termed it as "backup" translator. i.e a translator which does delayed replication. This gives a better response for the application. We can make a lot of assumptions like the backup directory will

Re: [Gluster-users] VM Images Over GlusterFS

2009-01-18 Thread Matthias Teege
> I am wondering if there is anyone on list that is successfully serving > virtual machine images (Xen, KVM, VMWare, etc.) over GlusterFS. I am I using it with Xen and vserver. With Xen and large disk images it works. Live migration and failover works. Healing is a major problem. It blocks the im