[Gluster-users] GlusterFS over a wide area

2011-02-28 Thread Jonathan Barber
(Apologies if this appears as a dupe, but I'm resending this as I first sent it before I'd subscribed to the mailing list, and I'm not sure whether it made it through moderation) Hi, I'm looking at using GlusterFS to replicate a filesystem between two sites about ~300km apart. The filesystem is

[Gluster-users] iSCSI or FC

2011-02-28 Thread Thomas Wakefield
For back end storage when not using direct attached JBODS, what does Gluster prefer, iSCSI or FC. Looking at 2 different setups: 1. Hitachi AMS 2300 with 8Gb/s FC (8 ports) or 2. Dell Equallogic boxes with 10Gb/s iSCSI (unknown number of ports, at least 6 i think) Either setup would be

Re: [Gluster-users] iSCSI or FC

2011-02-28 Thread Anand Babu Periasamy
Gluster should work fine on both. Personaly I will go with iSCSI because it is a commodity. Thomas Wakefield tw...@cola.iges.org wrote: For back end storage when not using direct attached JBODS, what does Gluster prefer, iSCSI or FC. Looking at 2 different setups: 1. Hitachi AMS 2300 with

[Gluster-users] Queries regarding CIFS

2011-02-28 Thread kashes...@gmail.com
I am using a 3.0.5 version of Gluster storage platform. I have the following queries: 1. In the documentation for 3.1, I see that there will be an option to add users (username/password) when one selects