The Gluster Community currently provides GlusterFS packages for the following distributions: 3.5 3.6 3.7 Fedora 21 ¹ × × Fedora 22 × ¹ × Fedora 23 × × ¹ Fedora 24 × × ¹ RHEL/CentOS 5 × × RHEL/CentOS 6 × × × RHEL/CentOS 7 × × × Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) × × Ubuntu …Read more
The Gluster community is please to announce the release of GlusterFS-3.4.7. The GlusterFS 3.4.7 release is focused on bug fixes: 33608f5 cluster/dht: Changed log level to DEBUG 076143f protocol: Log ENODATA & ENOATTR at DEBUG in removexattr_cbk a0aa6fb build: argp-standalone, conditional build and build with gcc-5 35fdb73 api: versioned symbols in libgfapi.so for compatibility 8bc612d …Read more
The 4th beta for GlusterFS 3.4.7 is now available for testing. A handful of bugs have been fixed since the 3.4.6 release, check the references below for details. Bug reporters are encouraged to verify the fixes, and we invite others to test this beta to check for regressions. The ETA for 3.4.7 GA is tentatively …Read more
The 2nd beta for GlusterFS 3.4.7 is now available for testing. A handful of bugs have been fixed since the 3.4.6 release, check the references below for details. Bug reporters are encouraged to verify the fixes, and we invite others to test this beta to check for regressions. The ETA for 3.4.7 GA is not …Read more
Lalatendu Mohanty, Niels de Vos, and myself will be holding GlusterFS Office Hours at FOSDEM. Look for us at the CentOS booth, from 16h00 to 17h00 on Saturday, 31 January. FOSDEM is taking place this weekend, 31 Jan and 1 Feb, at ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels. FOSDEM is a free event, no registration is necessary. …Read more
The release source tar file and packages for Fedora {20,21,rawhide}, RHEL/CentOS {5,6,7}, Debian {wheezy,jessie}, Pidora2014, and Raspbian wheezy are available at http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.6/3.6.2/ (Ubuntu packages will be available soon.) This release fixes the following bugs. Thanks to all who submitted bugs and patches and reviewed the changes. 1184191 – Cluster/DHT : Fixed crash due to null …Read more
A little bit of background—— We started to track API/ABI changes to libgfapi.so by incrementing the SO_NAME, e.g. libgfapi.so.0(.0.0). In the master branch it was incremented to to ‘7’ or libgfapi.so.7(.0.0) for the eventual glusterfs-3.7. I believe, but I’m not entirely certain¹, that we were supposed to reset this when we branched for release-3.6. Reset …Read more
Even though GlusterFS-3.6.0 was released last week, maintenance continues on the 3.4 stable series! The 2nd beta for GlusterFS 3.4.6 is now available for testing. Many bugs have been fixed since the 3.4.5 release, check the references below for details. Bug reporters are encouraged to verify the fixes, and we invite others to test this …Read more
On 1st Nov’14, Red Hat offices in Bangalore and Pune hosted Docker meetups and Hackathon. ~40 people attended Bangalore meetup. Before the hackathon we had following presentations :- Docker Global Hackday opening by Avi Cavale, Co-founder and CEO, Shippable. Introduction to … Continue reading →
Just in time for Halloween, GlusterFS 3.6.0 has been released. The newest release, as you would expect, is full of new features and new elements for stability. GlusterFS, as you may know, is a general-purpose scale out distributed file system. It aggregates storage exports over network interconnects provide a single unified namespace, is stackable and …Read more
As we roll towards the release of GlusterFS 3.6.0, it seemed a good time to find out what and how you are using GlusterFS. To that end, we’ve got a short poll up at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/gluster2014, which should be pretty quick for you to take. This is completely anonymous, unless you choose to opt in to allow …Read more
A while ago I put together a post detailing the installation and configuration of 2 hosts running glusterfs, which was then presented as CIFS based storage. http://jonarcher.info/2014/06/windows-cifs-fileshares-using-glusterfs-ctdb-highly-available-data/ This post gained a bit of interest through the comments and social networks, one of the comments I got was from John Mark Walker suggesting I look at the …read more
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RPMs for 3.4.6beta1 are available for testing at http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/3.4.6beta1/ Above repo contains RPMs for CentOS 5, 6, 7 and Fedora 19, 20, 21, 22. Packages for other platforms/distributions will be available once they are build. If you find any issue … Continue reading →
Over the past few years, there was an enormous increase in the number of user-space filesystems being developed and deployed. But one of the common challenges which all those filesystems’ users had to face was that there was a huge performance hit when their filesystems were exported via kernel-NFS (well-known and widely used network protocol).To […]
I decided to try the upgrade process from EL 6 to 7 on the servers I used in my previous blog post “Windows (CIFS) fileshares using GlusterFS and CTDB for Highly available data” Following the instructions here I found the process fairly painless. However there were 1 or two little niggles which caused various issues which …read more
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Tachyon, an in-memory distributed filesystem, is among the most dynamic projects in big data analytics stack. It provides java io like API, support Apache Spark, and vastly improves Spark’s performance under large data set. As illustrated in this paradigm, Tachyon retrieves data from underlying filesystems (HDFS, S3, Glusterfs, and Posix compliant filesystems), caches data in …Read more
Ovirt is an open source tool used to create/manage gluster nodes through an easy to use web interface. This document is to cover how gluster can be used with ovirt. Want to manage gluster nodes with ease using ovirt ? Create your own ovirt by following these simple steps. Machine Requirements : Fedora19 with 4GB […]
This tutorial will walk through the setup and configuration of GlusterFS and CTDB to provide highly available file storage via CIFS. GlusterFS is used to replicate data between multiple servers. CTDB provides highly available CIFS/Samba functionality. Prerequisites: 2 servers (virtual or physical) with RHEL 6 or derivative (CentOS, Scientific Linux). When installing create a partition …read more
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Here are the topics this blog is going to cover. Samba Server Samba VFS Libgfapi GlusterFS VFS plugin for Samba and libgfapi Without GlusterFS VFS plugin FUSE mount vs VFS plugin About Samba Server: Samba server runs on Unix and … Continue reading →
What is libgfapi ? User-space library for accessing data in GlusterFS Filesystem-like API Runs in application process no FUSE, no copies, no context switches …but same volfiles, translators, etc. Could be used for Apache/nginx modules, MPI I/O (maybe), Ganesha, etc….