Re: [Gluster-users] Why is xfs recommended?

2014-11-12 Thread Pranith Kumar Karampuri
On 11/12/2014 10:31 PM, Dennis Schafroth wrote: Is it know whether the fix will work for other filesystems like btrfs and HFS+ hi Dennis, This problem happens because of the way gluster handles 64-bit offsets introduced in ext4. Pranith cheers, :-Dennis On 12 Nov 2014, at 13:22 , Pran

Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] GlusterFS - Did you know? document

2014-11-12 Thread Atin Mukherjee
+1, excellent idea, this will definitely give an additional comfort zone for learning glusterfs faster. On 11/12/2014 05:47 PM, Krishnan Parthasarathi wrote: > All, > > We have come across behaviours and features of GlusterFS that are left > unexplained for various reasons. Thanks to Justin Clift

[Gluster-users] Gluster Community meeting 12-Nov-2014 minutes

2014-11-12 Thread Dave McAllister
Community meeting minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2014-11-12/gluster-meeting.2014-11-12-12.03.html Highlights: 3.6.2 is out 3.5.3 and 3.4.6 release imminent, released to maintainers for packaging Upcoming discussions for future features, Bitrot detection up first

Re: [Gluster-users] Why is xfs recommended?

2014-11-12 Thread Dennis Schafroth
Is it know whether the fix will work for other filesystems like btrfs and HFS+ cheers, :-Dennis > On 12 Nov 2014, at 13:22 , Pranith Kumar Karampuri > wrote: > >>> n Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:41:17 AM you wrote: I have seen weirdness with ext4 and replicated volumes, see thread "[Gluster

[Gluster-users] Planning for GlusterFS 3.7 and 4.0

2014-11-12 Thread Vijay Bellur
Greetings, We are excited to announce the launch of planning for GlusterFS 3.7 and GlusterFS 4.0 releases! GlusterFS 3.7 will continue the work already ongoing in the 3.x series,extending the current architecture and foundations to their limits. We expect 3.7 to be released in April 2015. De

Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] GlusterFS - Did you know? document

2014-11-12 Thread Justin Clift
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:17:25 -0500 (EST) Krishnan Parthasarathi wrote: > All, > > We have come across behaviours and features of GlusterFS that are left > unexplained for various reasons. Thanks to Justin Clift for > encouraging me to come up with a document that tries to fill this gap > increme

Re: [Gluster-users] Why is xfs recommended?

2014-11-12 Thread Pranith Kumar Karampuri
On 11/12/2014 05:41 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote: On 11/12/2014 03:35 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:41:17 AM you wrote: I have seen weirdness with ext4 and replicated volumes, see thread "[Gluster-devel] Duplicate entries and other weirdness in a 3*4 volume" started

[Gluster-users] GlusterFS - Did you know? document

2014-11-12 Thread Krishnan Parthasarathi
All, We have come across behaviours and features of GlusterFS that are left unexplained for various reasons. Thanks to Justin Clift for encouraging me to come up with a document that tries to fill this gap incrementally. We have decided to call it "did-you-know.md" and for a reason. We'd love to

Re: [Gluster-users] Why is xfs recommended?

2014-11-12 Thread Pranith Kumar Karampuri
On 11/12/2014 03:35 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:41:17 AM you wrote: I have seen weirdness with ext4 and replicated volumes, see thread "[Gluster-devel] Duplicate entries and other weirdness in a 3*4 volume" started at 17 July. Interesting, thanks. It is a bug in gluste

Re: [Gluster-users] Initial sync

2014-11-12 Thread Kaushal M
The glusterfs volume configuration lives in /var/lib/glusterd . You'll need to backup/restore the complete directory to get your functionality. /etc/glusterfs contains a simple volfile needed to start glusterd, which would be installed by the glusterfs package in most cases. You'll need this as we

[Gluster-users] Maintainer for release-3.6 [WAS : [Gluster-devel] Wanted: maintainer for release-3.6!]

2014-11-12 Thread Vijay Bellur
[Adding gluster-users] On 10/29/2014 12:11 PM, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: On Monday 27 October 2014 06:34 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote: Hi All, As we move closer to the release of 3.6.0, we are looking to add a release maintainer for the 3.6.0 development branch (release-3.6). Primary requirements for

Re: [Gluster-users] Issue with server reboot / shutdown

2014-11-12 Thread Niels de Vos
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:03:36AM +0100, Florian Knorn wrote: > Dear Niels, > > Many thanks for your quick reply. > > Indeed, after running “service glusterfs-server stop” (which is > essentially one of the first executed on shutdown), if I use “lsof” on > the brick directory I get many hits for

Re: [Gluster-users] Initial sync

2014-11-12 Thread Andreas Hollaus
Hi, As I previously described, my root file system is located in RAM so I'll lose the gluster volume definition(s) in case of a reboot. However, I would like to backup the required files to a mounted disk so that they can be restored to /etc after the reboot. Which files would I have to backup/r

Re: [Gluster-users] disperse configuration example

2014-11-12 Thread Xavier Hernandez
Hi Pedro, On 11/12/2014 10:56 AM, Pedro Serotto wrote: Hi Xavi, what about if I need to add more bricks than 3 ? Currently the number of bricks in a disperse set is fixed, as it is in a replica set. Basically you decide the level of reliability of the volume when you create it (proportion

Re: [Gluster-users] Why is xfs recommended?

2014-11-12 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:41:17 AM you wrote: > I have seen weirdness with ext4 and replicated volumes, see thread > "[Gluster-devel] Duplicate entries and other weirdness in a 3*4 volume" > started at 17 July. Interesting, thanks. -- Lindsay signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [Gluster-users] disperse configuration example

2014-11-12 Thread Pedro Serotto
Hi Xavi, what about if I need to add more bricks than 3 ? BR Pedro El Miércoles 12 de noviembre de 2014 10:09, Xavier Hernandez escribió: Hi Pedro, you can create a dispersed volume with 3 bricks and 1 of redundancy (or parity, like in RAID5) using the following command: gluster volume

Re: [Gluster-users] disperse configuration example

2014-11-12 Thread Xavier Hernandez
Hi Pedro, you can create a dispersed volume with 3 bricks and 1 of redundancy (or parity, like in RAID5) using the following command: gluster volume create disperse 3 redundancy 1 A RAID6-like configuration would use 2 as a redundancy value, and at least 5 bricks are needed. The numb

Re: [Gluster-users] Issue with server reboot / shutdown

2014-11-12 Thread Niels de Vos
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:07:46AM +0100, Florian Knorn wrote: > Hi, > > I have an issue where I can’t reboot or shutdown my server with > gluster running. The setup: > > Debian 7.7, Gluster - 3.5.2, 1 volume with 1 brick mounted via iSCSI, > using multipath-tools. > > On shutdown / reboot, the

Re: [Gluster-users] Why is xfs recommended?

2014-11-12 Thread Anders Blomdell
On 2014-11-12 05:54, Ravishankar N wrote: > On 11/12/2014 03:21 AM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: >> Just wondering about the usecases. In all my testing ext4 has been >> consistently faster for sustained and random read/writes on large files (VM >> images). >> >> Tested with/without external ssd journ

[Gluster-users] Issue with server reboot / shutdown

2014-11-12 Thread Florian Knorn
Hi, I have an issue where I can’t reboot or shutdown my server with gluster running. The setup: Debian 7.7, Gluster - 3.5.2, 1 volume with 1 brick mounted via iSCSI, using multipath-tools. On shutdown / reboot, the system hangs at “Unmounting local filesystems”, see this screenshot: https://www