<p dir="ltr">Il 12 nov 2016 9:04 PM, "Alex Crow" <<a href="mailto:acrow@integrafin.co.uk">acrow@integrafin.co.uk</a>> ha scritto:<br>
IMHO GlusterFS would be a great<br>
> product if it tried to:<br>
><br>
> a) Add less features per release, and/or slowing down the release cycle.<br>
> Maybe have a "Feature" <br>
> those that need to try new, well, features.<br>
> b) Concentrate on issues like split-brain, healing, and scaling online<br>
> without data loss. Seems to be a common theme on the list where healing<br>
> doesn't work without tinkering. It should really "just work".<br>
> c) Have a peek at BeeGFS. It's a very well-performing FS that has its<br>
> focus on HPC. You can't stand to lose many thousands of CPU-hours of<br>
> work if your FS goes down, and it has to be fast.<br>
><br>
> The biggest question for me is what is the target market for GlusterFS?<br>
> Is it:<br>
><br>
> HPC (performance, reliability on the large scale, ie loss of one file is<br>
> OK, all not, no funky features)<br>
> VM storage (much the same as HPC but large file performance required,no<br>
> loss or corruption of blocks within a file)<br>
> General File (medium performance OK, small file and random access<br>
> paramount, resilience and consistency need to be 99.999%, features such<br>
> as ACLs and XATTRs, snapshots required)<br>
><br>
> i think if the documentation/wiki addressed these questions it would<br>
> make it easier for newcomers to evaluate the product.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Totally agree<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">> This needs to be a warning or clearly documented. If you lose a couple<br>
> of PB of data in a professional role, I'd not fancy your employment<br>
> prospects. I've always had the feeling that GlusterFS is a bit of a<br>
> playground for new features and the only way to really have a stable<br>
> storage system is to stump up the cash to RedHat (and we've purchased a<br>
> lot of RHEL/RHEV licences), but having so many problems in the community<br>
> version really even puts me off buying the full package!<br>
><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Again, totally agree </p>