GlusterFS

We’re kicking off an updated Monthly Newsletter, coming out mid-month. We’ll highlight special posts, news and noteworthy threads from the mailing lists, events, and other things that are important for the Gluster community. Community Survey Followup ... [More] Our community survey results from November are out on the blog! News and Noteworthy Threads from the Mailing Lists […] [Less]

In November 2015, we did our annual Gluster Community Survey, and we had some great responses and turnout! We’ve taken some of the highlights and distilled them down for our overall community to review. Some interesting things: 68% of respondents have been using Gluster for less than 2 years. 3 shall be the number:The most […]

In my previous post, I talked about the sharding feature – what it does, where it is useful, etc. You can read that post here: http://blog.gluster.org/2015/12/introducing-shard-translator. When we designed and wrote sharding feature in GlusterFS, our ... [More] focus had been single-writer-to-large-files use cases, chief among these being the virtual machine image store use-case. We are happy […] [Less]

GlusterFS-3.7.0 saw the release of sharding feature, among several others. The feature was tagged as “experimental” as it was still in the initial stages of development back then. Here is some introduction to the feature: Why shard translator? GlusterFS’ answer to very large files (those which can grow beyond a single brick) had never been […]

Around the 10th of each month the release schedule allows for a 3.5 stable update. This got delayed a few days due to the unfriendly weather in The Netherlands, making me take some holidays in a more sunny place in Europe.This release fixes two bugs, o...

Around the 10th of each month the release schedule allows for a 3.5 stable update. This got delayed a few days due to the unfriendly weather in The Netherlands, making me take some holidays in a more sunny place in Europe.This release fixes two bugs, o...

The Gluster Community provides packages for Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, NetBSD and other distributions. All users are important to us, and we really like to hear how Gluster is (not?) working out for you, or what improvements are most wanted. It is...

The Gluster Community provides packages for Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, NetBSD and other distributions. All users are important to us, and we really like to hear how Gluster is (not?) working out for you, or what improvements are most wanted. It is...

I have been working in GlusterFS for quite some time now.  As you might know that GlusterFS is an open source distributed file-system. What differentiate Gluster from other distributed file-system is its scale-out nature, data access without metad...

I have been working in GlusterFS for quite some time now.  As you might know that GlusterFS is an open source distributed file-system. What differentiate Gluster from other distributed file-system is its scale-out nature, data access without metad...