Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] [FEEDBACK] Governance of GlusterFS project

2013-07-28 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Weekend activities kept me away from watching this thread, wanted to add in more of my 2 cents... :) Major releases would be great to happen more often - but keeping current releases "more current" is really what I was talking about. Example, 3.3.0 was a pretty solid release but some annoying bugs

Re: [Gluster-users] Status of the SAMBA module

2013-07-28 Thread Daniel Müller
But you need to have gluster installed!? Which version? Samba4.1 does not compile with the lates glusterfs 3.4 on CentOs 6.4. EDV Daniel Müller Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus Paul-Lechler-Str. 24 72076 Tübingen Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499 eMail: muel...@tropenkli

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster brick on drbd device

2013-07-28 Thread Daniel Müller
With gluster running on replicating volumes why do you need drbd!? Just xfs or ext3/4 is sufficient. --- EDV Daniel Müller Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus Paul-Lechler-Str. 24 72076 Tübingen Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499 eMa

Re: [Gluster-users] Documentation for hidden options exposed

2013-07-28 Thread Amar Tumballi
On 07/29/2013 04:46 AM, Harshavardhana wrote: http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Documenting_the_undocumented This is something that i wrote recently - options which could be used for interesting purposes and perhaps you will. Feel free to share and edit if anything missi

Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] [FEEDBACK] Governance of GlusterFS project

2013-07-28 Thread Emmanuel Dreyfus
Harshavardhana wrote: > What is good for GlusterFS as a whole is highly debatable - since there > are no module owners/subsystem maintainers as of yet at-least on paper. Just my two cents on that: you need to make clear if a module maintainer is a dictator or a steward for the module: does he ha

[Gluster-users] Documentation for hidden options exposed

2013-07-28 Thread Harshavardhana
http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Documenting_the_undocumented This is something that i wrote recently - options which could be used for interesting purposes and perhaps you will. Feel free to share and edit if anything missing, perhaps you have found other interesting opti

Re: [Gluster-users] [FEEDBACK] Governance of GlusterFS project

2013-07-28 Thread Harshavardhana
> >> There are many different models some of which are time tested which have >> worked for more than a decade and at a scale of 100,000's of patches >> millions of lines of code. >> >> 1. Linux kernel - >> http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/benevolentdictatorgovernancemodel >> 2. Mozilla Foundat

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS client blocking reboot

2013-07-28 Thread Anand Avati
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Marcus Bointon wrote: > On 28 Jul 2013, at 18:12, Anand Avati wrote: > > What is your typical workload, and what kind of tests did you compare > native client perf against NFS perf? > > > Low load, two web servers sharing a content area of < 500M. Even with a > si

Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] [FEEDBACK] Governance of GlusterFS project

2013-07-28 Thread Anand Avati
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > Anand Avati wrote: > > > We are in the process of formalizing the governance model of the > > GlusterFS project. Historically, the governance of the project has been > > loosely structured. This is an invitation to all of you to partic

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS client blocking reboot

2013-07-28 Thread Marcus Bointon
On 28 Jul 2013, at 18:12, Anand Avati wrote: > What is your typical workload, and what kind of tests did you compare native > client perf against NFS perf? Low load, two web servers sharing a content area of < 500M. Even with a single client, performance with native client is slow, i.e. more t

Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] [FEEDBACK] Governance of GlusterFS project

2013-07-28 Thread Emmanuel Dreyfus
Anand Avati wrote: > We are in the process of formalizing the governance model of the > GlusterFS project. Historically, the governance of the project has been > loosely structured. This is an invitation to all of you to participate in > this discussion and provide your feedback and suggestions

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS client blocking reboot

2013-07-28 Thread Anand Avati
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Marcus Bointon wrote: > On 28 Jul 2013, at 17:31, Anand Avati wrote: > > Mounting NFS export from localhost is a recipe for disaster for many other > reasons (including deadlocks under heavy IO). > > > Docs? I'm only doing it because it's the only workable solutio

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS client blocking reboot

2013-07-28 Thread Marcus Bointon
On 28 Jul 2013, at 17:31, Anand Avati wrote: > Mounting NFS export from localhost is a recipe for disaster for many other > reasons (including deadlocks under heavy IO). Docs? I'm only doing it because it's the only workable solution I've found for gluster at all. Gluster native client perform

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS client blocking reboot

2013-07-28 Thread Anand Avati
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Marcus Bointon wrote: > This is a silly chicken-and-egg problem. I've found when I issue a reboot > on a server that's mounted its own gluster volume via NFS (with the 'hard' > option set), Mounting NFS export from localhost is a recipe for disaster for many othe

Re: [Gluster-users] [FEEDBACK] Governance of GlusterFS project

2013-07-28 Thread Anand Avati
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Brian Foster wrote: > On 07/27/2013 02:32 AM, Anand Avati wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Bryan Whitehead > > wrote: > > > > I would really like to see releases happen regularly and more > > aggressivel

Re: [Gluster-users] [FEEDBACK] Governance of GlusterFS project

2013-07-28 Thread Anand Avati
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Harshavardhana wrote: > > > >> - Be responsible for maintaining release branch. >> - Deciding branch points in master for release branches. >> - Actively scan commits happening in master and cherry-pick those which >> improve stability of a release branch. >> - Ha

Re: [Gluster-users] [FEEDBACK] Governance of GlusterFS project

2013-07-28 Thread Brian Foster
On 07/27/2013 02:32 AM, Anand Avati wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Bryan Whitehead > wrote: > > I would really like to see releases happen regularly and more > aggressively. So maybe this plan needs a community QA guy or the > release m