Re: [Gluster-users] ZFS + Linux + Glusterfs for a production ready 100+ TB NAS on cloud

2011-09-24 Thread Craig Carl
XFS is a valid alternative to ZFS on Linux. If I remember correctly any operation that requires modifying a lot of xattr's can be slower than ext*, have you noticed anything like that? You might see slower rebalances or self healing? Craig Sent from a mobile device, please excuse my tpyos. On

Re: [Gluster-users] can't use sqlite3 on gluster mounted as NFS

2011-09-24 Thread Craig Carl
Brandon - SQLite uses POSIX locking to implement some of its ACID compliant behavior and requires the filesystem to fully implement POSIX advisory locks. Most network filesystems (including Gluster native and NFS) don't support everything that SQLite needs and so using SQLite on a networked

Re: [Gluster-users] ZFS + Linux + Glusterfs for a production ready 100+ TB NAS on cloud

2011-09-24 Thread Craig Carl
The only thing I might worry about is using ZFS on Linux, I still think it might be a little early to trust it with truly critical data, plus there doesn't seem to be a big ZFS+Linux+Gluster install base to help you if problems come up. I would use mdadm + LVM2 to create your RAID arrays on eac

[Gluster-users] anyone else playing with gcollect yet?

2011-07-28 Thread Craig Carl
Phil - Gcollect is agnostic as to the data collector, it is designed to support adding collectors on the fly. Using the collecd-exec plugin and PUTVAL it should be easyish to add collectd support. Here is (roughly) what you need to do - copy ganglia.d/* to collectd.d/* edit the bottom of each

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS export of Gluster with LoadBalancer

2011-06-27 Thread Craig Carl
Brian - Most the time we just use RRDNS. Just create multiple A records with the same name, one for each Gluster server or VIP. Craig Gluster On 06/27/2011 04:17 PM, Brian Laughton wrote: I have read the following page and was wondering if anyone had any practical experience with it http

Re: [Gluster-users] UPDATED: Enomaly users, please read -

2011-06-24 Thread Craig Carl
another alert as soon as both releases are GA. -- Thanks, Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer | Gluster 408-829-9953 | San Francisco, CA http://www.gluster.com/gluster-for-aws/ ---- Craig Carl <mailto:cr...@gluster.com&

[Gluster-users] Enomaly users, please read -

2011-06-24 Thread Craig Carl
een the ecpagents on the hypervisors results in the VMs failing to start. No data is lost or damaged. Again, this issue is specific to Enomaly. Enomaly users should immediatly upgrade to a version of Gluster =>3.1.5. http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/ Thanks, Craig Carl

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster 3.2.0 and ucarp not working

2011-06-06 Thread Craig Carl
d, i'm i right ? > > 2011/6/6 Craig Carl : >> Matus - >> If you are using the Gluster native client (mount -t glusterfs ...) >> then ucarp/CTDB is NOT required and you should not install it. Always >> use the real IPs when you are mounting with 'mount -t glust

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster 3.2.0 and ucarp not working

2011-06-06 Thread Craig Carl
over > 10 minutes for volume > to "wake up" but it never start to work - it never switch to another > node, even when UCARP was already pointing there, there was lot > of "recovery" messages on log but no attemt to connect to second node. > > thanks >

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster 3.2.0 and ucarp not working

2011-06-06 Thread Craig Carl
ation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Setting_Volume_Options Thanks, Craig -- Craig Carl, Senior Systems Engineer | Gluster 408.829.9953(PST) | http://gluster.com http://www.gluster.com/gluster-for-aws/ http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE5666F925A557DD8 On 6/6/11 12:09 AM, bxma...@gmail

Re: [Gluster-users] iSCSI?

2011-04-04 Thread Craig Carl
Michael - iSCSI on Gluster works well in theory and not so well in practice. When you create a new iSCSI device you have no way of knowing on what node of the Gluster cluster the file will actually be created on. In a replica environment the iSCSI layer makes it difficult to ensure synchronou

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS with UCARP vs. GlusterFS mount question

2010-12-10 Thread Craig Carl
Anything smaller than 128KB is 'small'. Craig On 12/09/2010 11:23 PM, Christian Fischer wrote: On Friday 10 December 2010 07:12:47 Craig Carl wrote: Christian - For large files the Gluster native client will perform better than NFS, but they are both good options. Than

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS with UCARP vs. GlusterFS mount question

2010-12-09 Thread Craig Carl
Christian - For large files the Gluster native client will perform better than NFS, but they are both good options. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/07/2010 11:39 PM, Christian Fischer wrote: Morning Folks, should I prefer NFS with UCARP or nat

Re: [Gluster-users] Usage of Quota Translator in 3.1

2010-12-09 Thread Craig Carl
Will - While we are working on it quotas are not supported in Gluster 3.1. We will let you know as soon as we have added that feature. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/08/2010 08:23 AM, Will Daniels wrote: Hi, I was hoping to use gluster to creat

Re: [Gluster-users] Missing "gluster volume set-transport" command

2010-12-08 Thread Craig Carl
Lana - That is a documentation bug, I have fixed it. There isn't a way to change the transport type on an existing volume, but if you delete the volume then recreate it exactly the same way with a different transport type it will work fine. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior

Re: [Gluster-users] howto disable gluster nfs on one computer

2010-12-08 Thread Craig Carl
these issues but I'll ask the engineer primarily responsible for gNFS to take a look at this thread and respond directly. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/08/2010 07:55 AM, William L. Sebok wrote: I'm sorry, but right now I don't qui

Re: [Gluster-users] Updated documentation - volume options

2010-12-08 Thread Craig Carl
I agree, and have filed an enhancement request. http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2204 Thanks for your feedback. Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/08/2010 02:45 PM, Jeff Anderson-Lee wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 16:09 -0500, Joshua Ba

Re: [Gluster-users] Updated documentation - volume options

2010-12-08 Thread Craig Carl
Joshua - 'gluster volume info ' or 'gluster volume info all' Only options that are not at their default value are displayed. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/08/2010 11:00 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 7 Dec 201

Re: [Gluster-users] howto disable gluster nfs on one computer

2010-12-07 Thread Craig Carl
# gluster volume start localdata # mount -t nfs -o vers=3 localhost:/localdata Then copy|mv the existing data into . This eliminates the need to run a second NFS server. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/07/2010 10:16 PM, Craig Carl wrote: Bill - We

Re: [Gluster-users] AFR Question

2010-12-07 Thread Craig Carl
[2]. [1] http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1_Native_Client_Guide [2] http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1_NFS_Guide Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engin

Re: [Gluster-users] gluster rebalance taking multiple days

2010-12-07 Thread Craig Carl
s not as just number of nodes but total sub-volumes for "distribute" translator. "M" is number of additional sub-volumes added before starting rebalance and scaling. So for multiple exports from a single server we need to calculate the total value moved from the server by

Re: [Gluster-users] howto disable gluster nfs on one computer

2010-12-07 Thread Craig Carl
Bill - As a temporary solution you can kill the process that is exporting the volume via NFS. The Gluster NFS process can be identified by 'ps -ef | grep nfs-server.vol'. The process will restart when glusterd does, or when any changes to the volume are made. Thanks, Craig

Re: [Gluster-users] howto disable gluster nfs on one computer

2010-12-07 Thread Craig Carl
Bill - We are working on a solution to this issue right now, please give me a couple of days to get back to you with an update. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/07/2010 10:30 AM, William L. Sebok wrote: Many of the computers in our cluster are diskl

[Gluster-users] Updated documentation - volume options

2010-12-07 Thread Craig Carl
needs to be changed, please also remember that the documentation wiki is publicly editable, helping with documentation is a great way for community members to support Gluster. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Glus

Re: [Gluster-users] Start a new volume with pre-existing directories

2010-12-03 Thread Craig Carl
ster user_8_1 user_8_2 user_8_3 ls fs7:/tempmount user_8_1 user_8_2 user_8_3 ls fs8:/tempmount user_8_1 user_8_2 user_8_3 Unmounting and remounting has no effect. Servers are both Ubuntu Server 10.4, client is CentOS 5, 64bits all around. Thanks and regards, Daniel On 12/03/2010 10:

Re: [Gluster-users] Anormal Gluster shutdown

2010-12-03 Thread Craig Carl
Samuel - I was able to recreate the failure and have updated the bug you filed. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/03/2010 01:24 AM, Samuel Hassine wrote: Craig, I am using Debian Lenny (Proxmox 1.7) r...@on-003:/# uname -a Linux on-003 2.6.32-3-pve

Re: [Gluster-users] Storage Platform 3.1.1?

2010-12-03 Thread Craig Carl
Christian - We're working on it everyday but we don't have a release date yet. As soon as we have a date we will send a note to the list. Thanks for your interest in Gluster and please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks again, Craig --> Craig Carl S

Re: [Gluster-users] Start a new volume with pre-existing directories

2010-12-03 Thread Craig Carl
ld not have worked, it is missing a volume name - gluster volume create transport tcp fs7:/storage/7, fs8:/storage/8, typo maybe? Please let us know how it goes, and please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer; Gluster, Inc.

Re: [Gluster-users] Anormal Gluster shutdown

2010-12-03 Thread Craig Carl
Samuel - I can't reproduce this issue locally, can you send me operating system and hardware details for both the Gluster servers and the client? Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/02/2010 05:59 AM, Samuel Hassine wrote: Hi all, GlusterFS p

Re: [Gluster-users] Distributed Replicated Volumes and 'same server redundancy'

2010-12-02 Thread Craig Carl
0-December/006001.html Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer; Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Office - (408) 770-1884 Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com Twitter - @gluster http://rackerhacker.com/2010/08/11/o

Re: [Gluster-users] performance stops at 1Gb

2010-12-02 Thread Craig Carl
different parts of the striped file, or lots of different files in a distribute cluster you would see your performance increase significantly. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/26/2010 07:57 AM, Gotwalt, P. wrote: Hi All, I am doing some tests with glus

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster 3.1 / Performance

2010-12-02 Thread Craig Carl
PK - With the gNFS server performance for VM's is significantly faster, we have lots of users using Gluster and NFS to host Xen, KVM, and VMWare images. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/26/2010 01:22 AM, raveenpl wrote: Hi, I want build sto

Re: [Gluster-users] Sharing files with GlusterFS + W2K8 DC

2010-12-02 Thread Craig Carl
Jens - We are working on AD integration, unfortunately it isn't available in the product yet. We will send a notice to this list as soon as it is. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/24/2010 07:16 AM, Simmoleit, Jens wrote: Hi list, I hope you can

Re: [Gluster-users] Moving Gluster bricks around a cluster

2010-12-02 Thread Craig Carl
. Move the LUN. 4. gluster add-brick server_new:/dev/sdc1 You data will be immediately available. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/22/2010 09:38 PM, Patrick Irvine wrote: Hi list, I am using gluster 3.1 on gentoo. I have previously been able (with 3.

Re: [Gluster-users] Rebalancing in 3.1 not working

2010-12-02 Thread Craig Carl
Dan - Gluster 3.1.1 s out, can you recreate the issue using that version? Please let us know. http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1_Filesystem_Installation_and_Configuration_Guide Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/21/2

Re: [Gluster-users] v3.1 gluster peer status crashes debian Xen DomU

2010-12-02 Thread Craig Carl
, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/30/2010 04:04 PM, Max Ivanov wrote: I am trying to deploy glusterfs on Xen VM running on debian squeeze. I've downloaded 3.1 deb file as mentioned in doc, added peers but "gluster peers status" either hangs or crashes VM (y

Re: [Gluster-users] Options default values?

2010-12-02 Thread Craig Carl
Craig - I've asked our documentation team to update the page, I'll let you know as soon they are done. Was there a specific option you were wondering about? Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/30/2010 10:42 AM, Craig Miller wrote: Quick Q

Re: [Gluster-users] Problem after adding a new brick

2010-12-02 Thread Craig Carl
John - Can you send the volume create command you used and the commands you used to add the brick? Also please send the output of `uname -a`, `gluster peer status`, `gluster volume info all`. Thanks, Craig On 12/02/2010 06:28 PM, John Lao wrote: When I mount via fuse I can see the data.

Re: [Gluster-users] RDMA Problems with GlusterFS 3.1.1

2010-12-02 Thread Craig Carl
Jeremy - What version of OFED are you running? Would you mind install version 1.5.2 from source? We have seen this resolve several issues of this type. http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.5.2/ Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/02/2010 10

Re: [Gluster-users] simple 2 server replication question - how to mount for HA

2010-12-02 Thread Craig Carl
Ben - The ping-timeout value is set by default to 42 seconds. I recommend reducing that to at least 25 seconds. Details on the volume options are here - http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Setting_Volume_Options Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Syst

Re: [Gluster-users] Moving external storage between bricks

2010-12-01 Thread Craig Carl
James - We will track the CentOS 6 time line, so not for a while yet. We use Fedora 11 and 12 quite a bit so I would be very surprised if there was an issue, please let us know how your testing goes. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/01/2010 11:59

Re: [Gluster-users] Moving external storage between bricks

2010-12-01 Thread Craig Carl
a minor performance hit to running bricks of different sizes in the same volume, small LUNs make that easier. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 12/01/2010 08:29 AM, Burnash, James wrote: Hello. So, here's my problem. I have 4 storage servers that wil

Re: [Gluster-users] Shared storage for KVM

2010-11-23 Thread Craig Carl
umentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Setting_Volume_Options. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer; Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Office - (408) 770-1884 Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com Twitter -

Re: [Gluster-users] Problems with Gluster 3.1 and replicate/mirror

2010-11-22 Thread Craig Carl
Hugo - How did you disable the quick-read translator? Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/22/2010 06:48 AM, Hugo Cisneiros (Eitch) wrote: Hi :) In another thread, I had problems with the quick-read translator that was fixed on 3.1.1. Since I'm usi

Re: [Gluster-users] Fuse tarball download link broken

2010-11-22 Thread Craig Carl
Fixed, thanks Marcus. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/21/2010 06:28 AM, Marcus Bointon wrote: This link to the patched fuse source: ftp://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/fuse/ on this page: http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.

Re: [Gluster-users] 2.0.8: server on tmpfs for small files

2010-11-19 Thread Craig Carl
/2010 6:55 PM, Craig Carl wrote: On 11/18/2010 04:33 PM, Jeremy Enos wrote: Post is almost a year old... ever any response here? Is it possible to export tmpfs locations w/ gluster? thx- Jeremy On 12/1/2009 8:14 AM, Alexander Beregalov wrote: Hi Is it possible to start server on tmpfs ?

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS3.1 - Bad Write Performance Unzipping Many Small Files

2010-11-19 Thread Craig Carl
export of the directory, and the unzip completed in 4.6 seconds which is around the performance level I need to get. Any ideas? Thanks, Rafiq On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Craig Carl <mailto:cr...@gluster.com>> wrote: Rafiq - Gluster 3.1.1 will ship shortly, in our test

Re: [Gluster-users] Automount using /net/ in Glusterfs 3.1?

2010-11-19 Thread Craig Carl
CentOS documentation - http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-nfs-client-config-autofs.html Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/19/2010 12:25 PM, Burnash, James wrote: Hi Jacob. The link you gave me was the page I was referring to in my p

Re: [Gluster-users] Write performance tragically slow

2010-11-19 Thread Craig Carl
Pavel - I have other performance testing running in EC2 this weekend, I'll add a kernel extract to the test suite, see what I get with various instance types, EBS design, etc. I'll get the results out to the list on Tuesday. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Eng

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS3.1 - Bad Write Performance Unzipping Many Small Files

2010-11-18 Thread Craig Carl
disk bound applications. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/18/2010 09:14 PM, Rafiq Maniar wrote: Hi, I'm using Glusterfs3.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 in a dual replication setup, on Amazon EC2. It takes 40-50 seconds to unzip an 8MB zip file full of small f

Re: [Gluster-users] Tiered storage/hierarchical storage with gluster?

2010-11-18 Thread Craig Carl
Dennis - Not at this point. HSM is a long term goal, it won't happen soon. If the 100Mbit machines have less available disk space they will do less I/O than the bigger machines, maybe that helps? Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster On 11/16/2010

Re: [Gluster-users] 2.0.8: server on tmpfs for small files

2010-11-18 Thread Craig Carl
O cards are very fast and work well with Gluster, so does the solution from RNA Networks. (http://www.rnanetworks.com/) Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster ___ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org http:

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster client 32bit

2010-11-16 Thread Craig Carl
this will heal only the files on that device. If you know when you had a failure you want to recover from this is even faster - #cd #find ./ -type f -mmin -exec stat /’{}’ \; this will heal only the files on that device changed x or more minutes ago. Thanks, Craig -->

Re: [Gluster-users] Help configuring Gluster 3.1

2010-11-16 Thread Craig Carl
- http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/glusterfs-3.1.1qa8.tar.gz. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster ___ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mail

Re: [Gluster-users] Asymmetrical storage capacity on Glusterfs bricks

2010-11-15 Thread Craig Carl
/wiki/Stub_file Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster ___ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users

Re: [Gluster-users] Online operations

2010-11-15 Thread Craig Carl
without interrupting access to it ... On 11/14/10 03:59, Craig Carl wrote: Anselm - You can remove a brick online, you can't change the type of an existing volume, if you could explain what you what to do with a 'merge' and a 'split' I could give you a better answer, you ca

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS on mailservers

2010-11-15 Thread Craig Carl
improve, please, please post your ideas here. Most of the product ideas posted to this mailing list in the last 6 months are being actively developed or investigated. Thanks again for your feedback. [1] Chris Mason is doing incredible work along with the entire brtfs community, nothing bu

Re: [Gluster-users] gluster with xfs

2010-11-15 Thread Craig Carl
ly fewer create/delete operations, you might find that the performance XFS delivers is acceptable. We have many successful deployments that use XFS in just this way." Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster ___ Gluster-user

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS on mailservers

2010-11-15 Thread Craig Carl
lways keep the index files local, that makes a big difference. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster ___ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users

Re: [Gluster-users] setup trouble without DNS

2010-11-15 Thread Craig Carl
.deb is build? BR Uwe Am 15.11.2010 um 11:02 schrieb Craig Carl: Uwe - There is a name resolution bug in version 3.1, that is the issue you are seeing. If you would like to continue testing the most recent QA version, 3.1.1qa6 resolves the issue, you can get it here - http

Re: [Gluster-users] setup trouble without DNS

2010-11-15 Thread Craig Carl
. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Uwe Kastens" To: gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 1:19:32 AM Subject: [Gluster-users] setup trouble without DNS Hello,

Re: [Gluster-users] setvolume failed (Stale NFS file handle) when volfile is changed

2010-11-15 Thread Craig Carl
, eliminating that requirement. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: mki-gluste...@mozone.net To: gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 1:45:19 AM Subject: Re: [Gluster-us

Re: [Gluster-users] setvolume failed (Stale NFS file handle) when volfile is changed

2010-11-15 Thread Craig Carl
Mohan - All the client and server volume files must be in sync, having different client vol files on different clients will result in these types of errors, it is also the primary cause of split-brain, so please be cautious when making these kind of changes. Thanks, Craig --> Cr

Re: [Gluster-users] Small Tests in EC2 failing...

2010-11-15 Thread Craig Carl
. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Adam Lindsay" To: gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:03:21 AM Subject: [Gluster-users] Small Tests in EC2 failing.

Re: [Gluster-users] Online operations

2010-11-13 Thread Craig Carl
to date on our progress. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster From: "Anselm Strauss" To: gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 1:56:03 AM Subject: [Gluster-users] Online operations Hi, I have done some testing with gluste

Re: [Gluster-users] upgrading from 2.0.9 to 3.1, any gotchas?

2010-11-12 Thread Craig Carl
m/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.0_to_3.1_Upgrade_Guide Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer; Gluster, Inc. Cell - ( 408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Office - ( 408) 770-1884 Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster At SC10 ?

2010-11-12 Thread Craig Carl
Mike - We will have several people on-site, if I remember right we are sharing a booth with Fusion-IO, come by anytime. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Mike Hanby" To:

Re: [Gluster-users] Release Roadmap

2010-11-12 Thread Craig Carl
Rick - We don't currently have a public road map but one is in the works. I'll post it as soon as it is ready to go. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Rick King" To: gl

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster 3.1: Newbie First Steps Questions

2010-11-11 Thread Craig Carl
to you, if you could give me some feedback I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Jens Mueller" To: gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Friday, November

Re: [Gluster-users] Question about redundancy over ethernet

2010-11-11 Thread Craig Carl
r and failover will be very quick and you will not get a connection reset, no errors to your applications. If you have multiple replica pairs use RRDNS to load balance across the entire cluster. http://ctdb.samba.org/configuring.html http://www.ucarp.org/project/ucarp Thanks, Craig --> Cr

Re: [Gluster-users] filling gluster cluster with large file doesn't crash the system?!

2010-11-11 Thread Craig Carl
to try and reproduce the problem here on 3.1 and 3.1.1qa5. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Matt Hodson" To: "Craig Carl" Cc: "Jeff Kozlowski" , gluster-user

Re: [Gluster-users] Questions about expanding a volume

2010-11-11 Thread Craig Carl
sub-volumes added before starting rebalance and scaling. So for multiple exports from a single server we need to calculate the total value moved from the server by multiplying with such number of exports. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster From: &qu

Re: [Gluster-users] filling gluster cluster with large file doesn't crash the system?!

2010-11-10 Thread Craig Carl
Matt - A couple of questions - What is your volume config? (`gluster volume info all`) What is the hardware config for each storage server? What command did you run to create the test data? What process is still writing to the file? Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster,

Re: [Gluster-users] 3.1: Multiple networks and Client access

2010-11-10 Thread Craig Carl
Udo - We are tracking these sort of client side configuration issues as bug #2014 , however in this particular case the hosts file/DNS workaround appears to be working well at several sites, is there any reason that process won't work for you? Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl

Re: [Gluster-users] monitor connections and activity?

2010-11-05 Thread Craig Carl
me you dump the stats they all reset to 0, you might for example setup a cron job to dump the stats nightly. The stats are pretty self explanatory, please let us know if you have any specific questions. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (Calif

Re: [Gluster-users] glusterd Documentation

2010-11-05 Thread Craig Carl
ed or detailed please let me know and I will make sure they get added to the wiki or the Intro to Gluster document. Thanks again, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Brent Clark" To:

Re: [Gluster-users] 3.1 and performance over TCP transport

2010-11-05 Thread Craig Carl
Peter - You can set most options on the volume using `gluster volume set`, there is a bug open to support adding translators dynamically using the gluster command, http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2014 . Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. C

Re: [Gluster-users] monitor connections and activity?

2010-11-05 Thread Craig Carl
glusterfs.io.stats.dump -v /tmp/ /mnt/client2 The error message reported by setfattr can be ignored. Latency and fd-stats data would be present in the respective log files of the glusterfs processes. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gt

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS export issue with GlusterFS 3.1

2010-11-04 Thread Craig Carl
5.1. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Bernard Li" To: "Shehjar Tikoo" Cc: "Gluster General Discussion List" Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2010 1:17:04 PM Subject:

Re: [Gluster-users] glusterd Documentation

2010-11-04 Thread Craig Carl
thing Gluster. Please let me know if this helps. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Jonathan B. Horen" To: gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2010 3:44:09 PM Subje

Re: [Gluster-users] cannot nfs mount glusterFS

2010-11-03 Thread Craig Carl
Rick - You would need to create an account, then you can add yourself to the CC list. I went ahead and added you to the CC list in case you don't want to create an account. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk -

Re: [Gluster-users] Proper Procedure when Rebooting Server(s)

2010-11-03 Thread Craig Carl
Mike - " nice and graceful like :-)" Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Mike Hanby" To: gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 2:09:17 PM Subject:

Re: [Gluster-users] cannot nfs mount glusterFS

2010-11-03 Thread Craig Carl
Bug #1203 - http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1203 Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Rick King" To: "Craig Carl" Cc: gluster-users@gluster.or

Re: [Gluster-users] expanding volumes produce weird results

2010-11-03 Thread Craig Carl
Samuele - That happens automatically now. We do this so you can dynamically add and remove storage to your Gluster cluster, plus users no longer have to manage or edit config files. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - crai

Re: [Gluster-users] cannot nfs mount glusterFS

2010-11-03 Thread Craig Carl
There is a bug filed, Gluster should throw a warning when you start the volume. Please keep us updated as you test, let me know f you have any other questions. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com F

Re: [Gluster-users] cannot nfs mount glusterFS

2010-11-03 Thread Craig Carl
Matt - I talked to engineering, is it possible another NFS service is running on the servers? Can you send us a ps -ef? Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Matt Hodson" To:

Re: [Gluster-users] expanding volumes produce weird results

2010-11-03 Thread Craig Carl
Samuele - You don't need to create a client vol file with 3.1. Please delete it from the clients and follow these instructions to mount - http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Manually_Mounting_Volumes Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Glus

Re: [Gluster-users] How to rotate logs on glusterfs 3.1.0

2010-11-03 Thread Craig Carl
the logs instead of hard coding. 2. Use 'which gluster' instead of hard coding. logrotate support should be included in Gluster, I have filed http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2053 to get it added. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (

Re: [Gluster-users] How to rotate logs on glusterfs 3.1.0

2010-11-03 Thread Craig Carl
Phil - Please check this page - http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Rotating_Logs Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Phil Packer" To: &qu

Re: [Gluster-users] rdma problems with glusterfs 3.1.0

2010-10-28 Thread Craig Carl
/OFED/ofed-1.5.1/ , even if your disti has OFED 1.5.1 pre-packaged. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Michael Galloway" To: "Lana Deere" Cc: gluster-users@gluster.org Sen

Re: [Gluster-users] Advice in designing a distributed GlusterFS architecture

2010-10-27 Thread Craig Carl
German - A good place to start would be the Introduction to Gluster guide, http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/systems-engineering/Introduction_to_Gluster.pdf . Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer; Gluster,

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster s3 compatible storage service

2010-10-27 Thread Craig Carl
.1 FS download - http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.1/LATEST/ and the documentation - http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Main_Page Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@g

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS export issue with GlusterFS 3.1

2010-10-26 Thread Craig Carl
not been tested on CentOS releases earlier than 5.1, use at your own risk. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Bernard Li" To: "Gluster General Discussion List" Sent: Tues

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS 3.1 client crash (Signal 6)

2010-10-26 Thread Craig Carl
Horacio - Gluster isn't supported on 32bit hardware. I would suggest you use NFS to attach your 32 bit clients. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Horacio Sanson" To: gluster

Re: [Gluster-users] I'm new to Gluster, and have some questions

2010-10-26 Thread Craig Carl
documentation for 3.1 please find the wiki here - http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Main_Page . If you think something is missing please let me know and I'll get it add ASAP. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA

Re: [Gluster-users] Question about Volume Type when bricks are on SAN

2010-10-26 Thread Craig Carl
est file. Once your Gluster volumes are created Gluster will hide all of the bricks under a single namespace. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Mike Hanby" To: gluster-users@gluster

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster in a web cluster

2010-10-24 Thread Craig Carl
ss than an hour. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.c...@gmail.com From: "Mathieu Masseboeuf - Cadran Finance" To: "Craig Carl" Cc: gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1

Re: [Gluster-users] Question about Volume Type when bricks are on SAN

2010-10-24 Thread Craig Carl
yping to setup a volume the first time there is no downside. Thanks, Craig --> Craig Carl Senior Systems Engineer Gluster From: "Daniel Mons" To: gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 5:38:12 AM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Question about Volume Type

Re: [Gluster-users] autofs problem

2010-10-22 Thread Craig Carl
sdffs33:/users This is our new 3.1 syntax that we now support. This is probably a slightly cleaner approach since it follows traditional NFS syntax but for Gluster native client mounts. From: "Craig Carl" To: "Luis E. Cerezo" Cc: gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: W

Re: [Gluster-users] Some client problems with TCP-only NFS in Gluster 3.1

2010-10-22 Thread Craig Carl
Brent - Those OS'es are 13 and 14 years old, respectively. I'm all for stable but we certainly don't test on them :) I've sent a note to engineering, I'll let you know what they say about UDP support. Craig From: "Brent A Nelson" To: "Craig Car

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