Philip Rhoades
2022-Aug-11 13:26 UTC
[Gluster-users] RPi (or something similar) cluster and GlusterFS - feedback?
People, For many years (after some nasty experiences) I have been in the habit of using a Fedora Work Station (which stays on but gets rebooted fairly frequently) and a separate Fedora server (email-MTA, some Web sites etc) which stays on for very long periods of time and only gets rebooted infrequently. I have other systems that get booted occasionally. My habit has been to backup / rsync important / critical data between the regular WS and the main server as appropriate - this has allowed me on a number of occasions to recover happily when hardware has failed, to get going temporarily again on one or the other machine while I sort out the problem. More recently I have been thinking about building an ARM cluster with Gluster that would hold all the data for both the WS and the main server and any other WSs or servers I might need to run from time to time. I would still make use of an off-site backup anyway but I like the idea of just being able to add another ARM device + SATA drive to the cluster to create more data space. I also thought I would go back to making use of WSs that were basically just X-servers that booted from some sort of USB stick but got the OS image from the cluster - this might be complicated by the fact I now use Sway rather than X - but one problem at a time . . Has anyone here set up a cluster something like this? Have people any suggestions about specific (Fedora) web pages / docs to look at? I have been tracking CEPH for some time and while it looks interesting, it seems overkill for what I am thinking of doing and more technically difficult to support / debug etc. I am thinking of starting the exercise with 4 RPis each with an 8Tb SATA drive. Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil at pricom.com.au
Strahil Nikolov
2022-Aug-14 12:26 UTC
[Gluster-users] RPi (or something similar) cluster and GlusterFS - feedback?
I know that somw users do have a RPI Setup and the only drawback I know is the packaging is not always up to date. What distro do you think to use on it ? Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov? On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 16:35, Philip Rhoades<phil at pricom.com.au> wrote: People, For many years (after some nasty experiences) I have been in the habit of using a Fedora Work Station (which stays on but gets rebooted fairly frequently) and a separate Fedora server (email-MTA, some Web sites etc) which stays on for very long periods of time and only gets rebooted infrequently.? I have other systems that get booted occasionally.? My habit has been to backup / rsync important / critical data between the regular WS and the main server as appropriate - this has allowed me on a number of occasions to recover happily when hardware has failed, to get going temporarily again on one or the other machine while I sort out the problem. More recently I have been thinking about building an ARM cluster with Gluster that would hold all the data for both the WS and the main server and any other WSs or servers I might need to run from time to time.? I would still make use of an off-site backup anyway but I like the idea of just being able to add another ARM device + SATA drive to the cluster to create more data space.? I also thought I would go back to making use of WSs that were basically just X-servers that booted from some sort of USB stick but got the OS image from the cluster - this might be complicated by the fact I now use Sway rather than X - but one problem at a time . . Has anyone here set up a cluster something like this?? Have people any suggestions about specific (Fedora) web pages / docs to look at? I have been tracking CEPH for some time and while it looks interesting, it seems overkill for what I am thinking of doing and more technically difficult to support / debug etc.? I am thinking of starting the exercise with 4 RPis each with an 8Tb SATA drive. Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra? NSW? 2794 Australia E-mail:? phil at pricom.com.au ________ Community Meeting Calendar: Schedule - Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 14:30 IST / 09:00 UTC Bridge: https://meet.google.com/cpu-eiue-hvk Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20220814/ac0bd7b8/attachment.html>