The Gluster Community and SwiftStack would like to invite you to join our sprint at PyCon 2013, taking place in the Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara, CA, on Monday, March 18, 2013. The sprint is meant for anyone who wants to create apps leveraging the Swift API – which means anyone who’s ever wanted or needed …Read more
A little while back, I tested out the Unified File and Object feature in Gluster 3.3, which taps OpenStack’s Swift component to handle the object half of the file and object combo. It took me kind of a long time to get it all running, so I was pleased to find this blog post promising a […]
Back in February 2011, when I joined what ultimately became part of the GlusterFS development team at Red Hat, I had already been interested in low power — as in low power consumption — computing for a long time. For most of my earlier explorations I had used a Linksys WRT54G[1] router — which uses …Read more
This sets up a GlusterFS Unified File and Object (UFO) server on a single node (single brick) Gluster server using the RPMs contained in my YUM repo at http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/kkeithle/glusterfs/. This repo contains RPMs for Fedora 16, Fedora 17, and RHEL 6. Alternatively you may use the glusterfs-3.4.0beta1 RPMs from the GlusterFS YUM repo at http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/3.4.0beta1/ …Read more
Within the past couple weeks, Fedora and Gluster rolled out new versions, packed with too many features to discuss in a single blog post. However, a couple of the stand-out updates in each release overlap neatly enough to tackle them together–namely, the inclusion of OpenStack Essex in Fedora 17 and support for using Gluster 3.3 as a […]