Progress cannot be made without change. As technologists, we recognize this every day. Most of the time, these changes are iterative: progresssive additions of features to projects like Gluster. Sometimes those changes are small, and sometimes not. And that’s, of course, just talking about our project. But one of the biggest strengths of our community’s …Read more

Gluster 6 – We’re in planning for our Gluster 6 release, currently scheduled for Feb 2019. More details on the mailing lists at https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-November/055672.html Upcoming Community Meeting – December 19 – 15:00 UTC in #gluster-meeting on freenode. https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings has the agenda. Want swag for your meetup? https://www.gluster.org/events/ has a contact form for us to let …Read more

Announcing mountpoint, August 27-28, 2018 Our inaugural software-defined storage conference combining Gluster, Ceph and other projects! More details at: http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-May/034039.html CFP at: http://mountpoint.io/   Out of cycle updates for all maintained Gluster versions: New updates for 3.10, 3.12 and 4.0 http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/announce/2018-April/000098.html   Project Technical Leadership Council Announced http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/announce/2018-April/000094.html   Gluster and Red Hat Summit: Gluster’s …Read more

Welcome to an exceptionally busy month for Gluster! Gluster Summit Thanks to all who attended this year’s Gluster Summit. As you can see, conversations are continuing to happen, with notes from the Birds of a Feather sessions starting to come into the mailing lists. If something sparked your interest, please post about it! We’ll be …Read more

If you’ve been watching the Gluster Community Day Meetup.com page, you’ve noticed lots of activity lately. That’s because we are planning several of these around the world, in addition to a few others we’ve already run this year. What is a ‘Gluster Community Day?’ It’s a day for in-depth sessions, use cases, demos, and developer …Read more

Several talks related to the Gluster Community have been proposed for the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong in November. You have to vote for your favorites so that we can be sure to get on the program. Remember to vote early and often! Proposed Talks: Shared Storage: Data Availability Across Clouds and Traditional Datacenters Scaling …Read more

Today at Red Hat Summit, Jon Masters, Red Hat’s chief ARM architect, demonstrated GlusterFS replicated on two ARM 64 servers, streaming a video. This marks the first successful demo of a distributed filesystem running on ARM 64. Video and podcast to come soon.    

It’s that time again! Time to start prepping for a new release of GlusterFS, in this case, 3.4. If you haven’t checked it out yet, grab a source tarball and tell us how it goes. There are also community builds showing up on download.gluster.org for Ubuntu, Fedora and EPEL. Additionally, the Git repo has now …Read more

I forgot to post this at the time, but I had a lovely conversation with Richard Morrell, aka the “Cloud Evangelist” at Red Hat’s UK office. Richard is a jolly bloke with a fair bit to say on all things cloud. We talked about GlusterFS, the Gluster community, and also about Red Hat’s upcoming Developer …Read more

Today, we’re announcing the next generation of GlusterFS, version 3.3. The release has been a year in the making and marks several firsts: the first post-acquisition release under Red Hat, our first major act as an openly-governed project and our first foray beyond NAS. We’ve also taken our first steps towards merging big data and …Read more

In 1814, Thomas Jefferson donated the contents of his vast personal library of books and correspondence to form the foundation of the Library of Congress. Some 200 years later, that library is one of the largest in the world. Yet, the text of all of it…

Our 3rd and final community profile features Louis ‘Semiosis’ Zuckerman. Semiosis maintains a repository of GlusterFS binaries for Ubuntu on Launchpad.net. While he came in 2nd in the contest based on his contributions on our Community Q&#3…

A big part of the value proposition of cloud is to ensure that you have continuous access to your data, and that you’ve moved beyond the physical limitations of a single box or a single data center or a single geography. While the move to the cloud can…

Now that we’ve learned what a translator looks like and how to build one, it’s time to run one and actually watch it work. The best way to do this is good old-fashioned gdb, as follows (using some of the examples from last time). 1 2 3 4 5 …

As of yesterday, my most significant patch yet became a real part of GlusterFS. It’s not a big patch, but it’s significant because what it adds is enforcement of quorum for writes. In operational terms, what this means is that – if yo…

(This is the 2nd in a series highlighting our community contest winners) When you contribute code to an open source project, it’s common practice to find yourself with a hefty job offer from the company sponsoring the project.  Jeff Darcy, autho…

In the first two parts of this series, we learned how to write a basic translator skeleton that can get through loading, initialization, and option processing. This time we’ll cover how to build that translator, configure a volume to use it, and …

If you’re into 1960’s songs about middle class conformity, you may not have a positive association with lots of interchangeable “little boxes.” In storage, however, those little boxes are not only beautiful but the wave of the future. Insider (free r…

We are publishing a series of profiles on the winners of our recent community contest, and today we’re starting with the grand prize winner, Joe Julian. Joe has transformed the #gluster IRC channel in the 2 years since he started participating, a…

Some time ago, we held a bit of a contest that we dubbed the International GlusterFS Scale-out Community Contest. We tabulated results and even selected a winner. And then something happened. A big something – like an acquisition by Red Hat. Not …