Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster and iSCSI

2010-03-12 Thread Keith Freedman
At 06:57 AM 3/12/2010, Marcus Bointon wrote: I'm just wondering how gluster and iscsi might work together. I suspect that in many situations they could be used interchangeably, but how about them working together? If a setup providing a gluster AFR service was on top of remote iSCSI targets,

Re: [Gluster-users] Problem With AFR

2010-03-06 Thread Keith Freedman
slower since it's constantly doing all this unnecessary extra work. ^C Keith Freedman wrote: At 08:13 AM 3/6/2010, Chad wrote: I second this question/request. When the 1st server goes down, how do we eliminate the hang time? 5 seconds is a long time for a file system to be hung

Re: [Gluster-users] favorite-child prevents from syncing an empty directory

2009-04-05 Thread Keith Freedman
At 03:26 AM 4/5/2009, Stas Oskin wrote: Hi. I wanted to report another issue I found with the AFR. It seems that while AFR'ing two servers and one is completely empty, if the empty server is be defined as favorite-child - no syncing happens at all! Meaning, I needed to manually change the

Re: [Gluster-users] Pending fcntl locks found!

2009-03-18 Thread Keith Freedman
AM 3/16/2009, Keith Freedman wrote: Also, I'm wondering if this is related to the fact that I have single process client/server. which used to be the recommended method and now is not. if I split those out, will that solve my problem? At 09:50 AM 3/16/2009, Keith Freedman wrote: At 04:06 AM 3/16

Re: [Gluster-users] AFR synchronization

2009-03-17 Thread Keith Freedman
At 01:07 AM 3/17/2009, Stas Oskin wrote: Hi. As far as I understand, in case one of the servers had downtime and comes back, GlusterFS automatically synchronizes the files on it when they are accessed. Would such synchronization increase the time the user waits for the file? Meaning the

Re: [Gluster-users] How can I mount glusterfs-1.3 and glusterfs-2.0 simultaneously?

2009-03-17 Thread Keith Freedman
I'm guessing you need to build glusterfs-1.3 into a different --prefix spot to make sure it's binaries and libraries aren't clobbering eachother. then, I'm guessing you need to hard link the binary, instead of dynamic linking or the linker will try to grab the wrong one. At 06:24 AM

Re: [Gluster-users] Pending fcntl locks found!

2009-03-16 Thread Keith Freedman
Also, I'm wondering if this is related to the fact that I have single process client/server. which used to be the recommended method and now is not. if I split those out, will that solve my problem? At 09:50 AM 3/16/2009, Keith Freedman wrote: At 04:06 AM 3/16/2009, Vikas Gorur wrote: 2009/3

Re: [Gluster-users] AFR simple setup and not working?

2009-03-16 Thread Keith Freedman
At 10:34 AM 3/16/2009, Pathiakis, Paul wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=_=_NextPart_001_01C9A65D.791DF785 I have machine 1 with a /a/foo that is populated. I have machine 2 with a /a/foo that is not populated. Shouldn't

Re: [Gluster-users] Pending fcntl locks found!

2009-03-15 Thread Keith Freedman
any thoughts on this one? it seems to be causing some severe problems. there are occasions where things block on all nodes, seemingly waiting for one to get a lock that it never gets? and I've no real way of finding out which file is the problem or why? At 11:21 PM 3/13/2009, Keith Freedman

[Gluster-users] Pending fcntl locks found!

2009-03-14 Thread Keith Freedman
all of a sudden, I'm getting messages such as this: 2009-03-13 23:14:06 C [posix.c:709:pl_forget] posix-locks-home1: Pending fcntl locks found! and some processes are hanging waiting presumably for the locks? any way to find out what files are being locked and unlock them. restarting gluster

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS running, but not syncing is done

2009-03-09 Thread Keith Freedman
At 05:09 AM 3/9/2009, Stas Oskin wrote: Nope, it actually my first setup in lab. No errors - it just seems as not synchronizing anything. The version I'm using is the latest one - 2 rc2. Perhaps I need to modify anything else in addition to GlusterFS installation - like file-systems

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS running, but not syncing is done

2009-03-09 Thread Keith Freedman
At 05:34 AM 3/9/2009, Krishna Srinivas wrote: Do not use single process as both server and client as we saw issues related to locking. Can you see if using different processes for server and client works fine w.r.t replication? this is news to me. when will this be fixed? It used to be that

Re: [Gluster-users] fuse-2.7.3glfs10 - Ubuntu compilation problem.

2009-02-09 Thread Keith Freedman
make sure you have the kernel-sources rpm installed you can't build the kernel fuse module but I think you still need the kernel headers to compile everything else. At 03:46 PM 2/9/2009, Chris Maciejewski wrote: Hi, Could someone please let me know how can I compile fuse-2.7.3glfs10 on Ubuntu

Re: [Gluster-users] AFR/replicate questions

2009-01-30 Thread Keith Freedman
At 04:20 AM 1/30/2009, Barnaby Gray wrote: I'm in the process of setting up server-side AFR with 2 servers in separate data centres, separated by a WAN. Writes will be relatively few, so we can live with the performance limitations of the WAN. I noticed unexpected performance though when listing

Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Re : HA +unify design with multiply server with multiple client

2009-01-27 Thread Keith Freedman
At 09:41 PM 1/26/2009, Raghavendra G wrote: namespace is just a cache, which holds the directory tree of unify. Please note that the files contained in this directory tree are of zero byte sized. what about storage scalibality in this design? both server and client. can you please give one

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

2009-01-27 Thread Keith Freedman
At 09:32 AM 1/27/2009, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: On 01/27/09 02:21, Keith Freedman wrote: At 10:36 AM 1/26/2009, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: I dont see any problems with your config. other than, if your network connection is very sporadic, then you'll be caught often by waiting for timeouts which

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

2009-01-26 Thread Keith Freedman
At 10:36 AM 1/26/2009, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: Here, if the network connection fails and is back up in short periods of time you'll alway be experiencing delays as gluster is often waiting for timeouts, then the server is visible again, it auto-heals, then it's not visible and it has to

Re: [Gluster-users] Email storage backend for Sendmail, Maildir, and Courier-imap

2009-01-22 Thread Keith Freedman
we ran into this problem. it seems related to timestamps being off by microseconds. when someone would check their email on one machine, then hit another whose time was off by even microseconds, it would think all the messages are suddenly new or different from ones it's checked. my guess is

Re: [Gluster-users] glusterfs alternative ? :P

2009-01-21 Thread Keith Freedman
At 10:55 AM 1/21/2009, Stas Oskin wrote: This the bit I don't understand - shouldn't the Lustre nodes sync the data between themselves? If there is a shared storage device needed on some medium, what then the Lustre storage nodes actually do? I mean, what is the idea of Lustre being cluster