In the previous Translator 101 post, we looked at some of the dispatch tables and options processing in a translator. This time we’re going to cover the rest of the “shell” of a translator – i.e. the other global parts not speci…
As of a few minutes ago, the license on HekaFS changed from AGPLv3+ to GPLv3 – not AGPL, not LGPL, not later versions. This only affects the git repository so far; packages with the change still need to be built, then those need to be pushed into…
This is the first post in a series that will explain some of the details of writing a GlusterFS translator, using some actual code to illustrate. Before we begin, a word about environments. GlusterFS is over 300K lines of code spread across a few hundr…
Going to Cloud Expo? Visit Red Hat in booth #408 to see demos, talk to experts, and find out how we can be your partner in the cloud. Also, the Red Hat Storage / Gluster folks are in booth #317 to show how to effectively scale-out your storage systems …
Yesterday, a customer asked whether some of the future directions for GlusterFS might result in less need for storage or system administrators. As part of my reply I hit on a theme that seemed to resonate well enough that it’s worth expanding on …
GlusterFS community member Keisuke was kind enough to post his presentation on GlusterFS object storage functionality. It’s a great primer for those interested in how it works, and we love to promote the works of our community members. GlusterFS …
Imagine that it’s the height of the Cold War, and you are trying to design an approach to command, control, and communications that can survive a full-scale nuclear attack.
One approach is to build a small number of communications nodes that are highly…
A lot of people have asked me about what the acquisition of Gluster by Red Hat means for HekaFS. In the interests of transparency I’m going to share a bit of my thinking on that, but I should be extra-careful to note that none of this represents …
GlusterFS is a stackable file system with a layered approach that allows developers to easily build new extensions and add new layers to the base file system. Join Red Hat engineer Jeff Darcy as he walks through the GlusterFS architecture and demonst…
By now, a lot of people have heard of BEAST, which is an attack against the AES-CBC encryption used in SSL. Some people might also have noticed that the HekaFS git sources include “aes” and “cbc” branches which represent two dif…
My wife and I are both dog people, but we have mixed views regarding another contentious issue: hardware versus software.
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Last night I gave a talk at BBLISA about GlusterFS, HekaFS, and cloud filesystems generally. It was a great time with a great group, and I thank everyone involved. One thing that did come up during the talk had to do with this slide about what I consid…
I wanted to share some of the highlights of our pre-acquisition shindig here at Gluster HQ. First off, the cake: I know what you’re thinking: “Why are ants crawling on that hat?” For GlusterFS, ants signify 2 things: The elastic hash….
As you may have heard by now, Red Hat has announced that they are acquiring Gluster. Here’s just a sampling of reading material on the acquisition from the parties involved: Gluster Press Release Extensive blog post from Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens…
Whenever people ask me what Gluster does, I usually answer, “We are trying to be the Red Hat of Storage.” In other words, we are trying to open up one of the last bastions of proprietary and monolithic architectures in IT, by providing a terrific s…
Dear friends and family of Gluster: We’ve had a most exciting development: one that is great for customers, community members and everyone else associated with Gluster and…Red Hat. Yes, Red Hat. Read on for more. As we thought about how to …
Ushers in New Era of Software-Based Open Storage Platforms to Unify On-Premise and Cloud Adds Scale-Out Management of Unstructured Data to Red Hat Portfolio with Gluster’s Disruptive Open Source Storage Solutions Raleigh, NC – October 4, 2011 – R…
We’re coming down to the final 24 hours of the 1st International GlusterFS Scale-out Community Contest. As of right now, the top 5 looks like this: Joe Julian 118 Semiosis 69 Jeff Darcy 69 Greg Swift 34 kyle.sabine 17 The results of this 1st cont…
Over at Datamation, Jeff Vance has written an informative guide for prospective cloud storage customers with a list of questions they should be asking. I was pleased to find that one of the questions is “Are files and backups persistently (and qu…
Some Ubuntu users have reported errors mounting GlusterFS volumes at boot time due to the order that the Upstart system init daemon starts services. Gluster community member Semiosis posted a solution: On Ubuntu, if you add a glusterfs volume to the fs…