Ilias Chasapakis forumZFD
2024-Jul-09 05:53 UTC
[Gluster-users] Glusterfs community status
Hi, we at forumZFD are currently experiencing problems similar to those mentioned here on the mailing list especially on the latest messages. Our gluster just doesn't heal all entries and "manual" healing is long and tedious. Entries accumulate in time and we have to do regular cleanups that take long and are risky.? Despite changing available options with different combinations of values, the problem persists. So we thought, "let's go to the community meeting" if not much is happening here on the list. We are at the end of our knowledge and can therefore no longer contribute much to the list. Unfortunately, nobody was at the community meeting. Somehow we have the feeling that there is no one left in the community or in the project who is interested in fixing the basics of Gluster (namely the healing). Is that the case and is gluster really end of life? We appreciate a lot the contributions in the last few years and all the work done. As well as for the honest efforts to give a hand. But would be good to have an orientation on the status of the project itself. Many thanks in advance for any replies. Ilias -- ?forumZFD Entschieden f?r Frieden | Committed to Peace Ilias Chasapakis Referent IT | IT Referent Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V. | Forum Civil Peace Service Am K?lner Brett 8 | 50825 K?ln | Germany Tel 0221 91273243 | Fax 0221 91273299 | http://www.forumZFD.de Vorstand nach ? 26 BGB, einzelvertretungsberechtigt|Executive Board: Alexander Mauz, Sonja Wiekenberg-Mlalandle, Jens von Bargen VR 17651 Amtsgericht K?ln Spenden|Donations: IBAN DE90 4306 0967 4103 7264 00 BIC GENODEM1GLS -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 665 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20240709/54dfde61/attachment.sig>
Hi, Here is my take on gluster today. We experience the same type of problem as well with failing heals and manual, timeconsuming work. I asked the same type of question on the list a number of months ago about the gluster project state and my conclution on the answers is that the gluster project has just slowed down more and more and people are leaving for other file systems. For a long time nothing has been released from the project and the mailing list has just gone more and more quiet. Gluster has served us well for many years and I think that gluster has been a really great filesystem and it makes me sad to see that gluster is comming to an end. I really like it!! Internally in our organization we have had discussions and made tests with cephfs and our decision is that we will leave gluster and use cephfs instead. As we do not see that gluster will improve we have no other option then to use other filesystems and in our case it will be ceph. I hope this helps!! Best regards Marcus On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 07:53:36AM +0200, Ilias Chasapakis forumZFD wrote:> CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. > > > Hi, we at forumZFD are currently experiencing problems similar to those > mentioned here on the mailing list especially on the latest messages. > > Our gluster just doesn't heal all entries and "manual" healing is long > and tedious. Entries accumulate in time and we have to do regular > cleanups that take long and are risky. Despite changing available > options with different combinations of values, the problem persists. So > we thought, "let's go to the community meeting" if not much is happening > here on the list. We are at the end of our knowledge and can therefore > no longer contribute much to the list. Unfortunately, nobody was at the > community meeting. Somehow we have the feeling that there is no one left > in the community or in the project who is interested in fixing the > basics of Gluster (namely the healing). Is that the case and is gluster > really end of life? > > We appreciate a lot the contributions in the last few years and all the > work done. As well as for the honest efforts to give a hand. But would > be good to have an orientation on the status of the project itself. > > Many thanks in advance for any replies. > > Ilias > > -- > ?forumZFD > Entschieden f?r Frieden | Committed to Peace > > Ilias Chasapakis > Referent IT | IT Referent > > Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V. | Forum Civil Peace Service > Am K?lner Brett 8 | 50825 K?ln | Germany > > Tel 0221 91273243 | Fax 0221 91273299 | http://www.forumZFD.de > > Vorstand nach ? 26 BGB, einzelvertretungsberechtigt|Executive Board: > Alexander Mauz, Sonja Wiekenberg-Mlalandle, Jens von Bargen > VR 17651 Amtsgericht K?ln > > Spenden|Donations: IBAN DE90 4306 0967 4103 7264 00 BIC GENODEM1GLS >> ________ > > > > 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-- ************************************************** * Marcus Peders?n * * System administrator * ************************************************** * Interbull Centre * * ================ * * Department of Animal Breeding & Genetics ? SLU * * Box 7023, SE-750 07 * * Uppsala, Sweden * ************************************************** * Visiting address: * * Room 55614, Ulls v?g 26, Ultuna * * Uppsala * * Sweden * * * * Tel: +46-(0)18-67 1962 * * * ************************************************** * ISO 9001 Bureau Veritas No SE004561-1 * ************************************************** --- N?r du skickar e-post till SLU s? inneb?r detta att SLU behandlar dina personuppgifter. F?r att l?sa mer om hur detta g?r till, klicka h?r <https://www.slu.se/om-slu/kontakta-slu/personuppgifter/> E-mailing SLU will result in SLU processing your personal data. For more information on how this is done, click here <https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/contact-slu/personal-data/>
Hi, We'll continue to use Gluster whilst we can and remain hopeful that a community will slowly form around the project. These things can take time I guess/hope. I appreciate the simplicity of Gluster and it works well for our use case - we have a small distribute/replicate storage cluster backing our KVM and iSCSI data. I've looked at Ceph a number of times but the complexity of it doesn't fill me with joy. I think something that complex is going to fall to pieces unless you really understand what you're doing and that's a big undertaking. Ronny Ilias Chasapakis forumZFD wrote on 09/07/2024 06:53:> Hi, we at forumZFD are currently experiencing problems similar to > those mentioned here on the mailing list especially on the latest > messages. > > Our gluster just doesn't heal all entries and "manual" healing is > long and tedious. Entries accumulate in time and we have to do > regular cleanups that take long and are risky. Despite changing > available options with different combinations of values, the problem > persists. So we thought, "let's go to the community meeting" if not > much is happening here on the list. We are at the end of our > knowledge and can therefore no longer contribute much to the list. > Unfortunately, nobody was at the community meeting. Somehow we have > the feeling that there is no one left in the community or in the > project who is interested in fixing the basics of Gluster (namely the > healing). Is that the case and is gluster really end of life? > > We appreciate a lot the contributions in the last few years and all > the work done. As well as for the honest efforts to give a hand. But > would be good to have an orientation on the status of the project > itself. > > Many thanks in advance for any replies. > > Ilias-- Ronny Adsetts Technical Director Amazing Internet Ltd, London t: +44 20 8977 8943 w: www.amazinginternet.com Registered office: 85 Waldegrave Park, Twickenham, TW1 4TJ Registered in England. Company No. 4042957
Hi Ilias, Usually when healing problems occur, the first step I do is to take a look if all clients are connected to all bricks using: gluster volume status all client-list gluster volume status all clients Can you check if you have clients connected only to some of the bricks instead of all ? Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov ? ???????, 9 ??? 2024 ?. ? 08:59:38 ?. ???????+3, Ilias Chasapakis forumZFD <chasapakis at forumzfd.de> ??????: Hi, we at forumZFD are currently experiencing problems similar to those mentioned here on the mailing list especially on the latest messages. Our gluster just doesn't heal all entries and "manual" healing is long and tedious. Entries accumulate in time and we have to do regular cleanups that take long and are risky.? Despite changing available options with different combinations of values, the problem persists. So we thought, "let's go to the community meeting" if not much is happening here on the list. We are at the end of our knowledge and can therefore no longer contribute much to the list. Unfortunately, nobody was at the community meeting. Somehow we have the feeling that there is no one left in the community or in the project who is interested in fixing the basics of Gluster (namely the healing). Is that the case and is gluster really end of life? We appreciate a lot the contributions in the last few years and all the work done. As well as for the honest efforts to give a hand. But would be good to have an orientation on the status of the project itself. Many thanks in advance for any replies. Ilias -- ?forumZFD Entschieden f?r Frieden | Committed to Peace Ilias Chasapakis Referent IT | IT Referent Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V. | Forum Civil Peace Service Am K?lner Brett 8 | 50825 K?ln | Germany Tel 0221 91273243 | Fax 0221 91273299 | http://www.forumZFD.de Vorstand nach ? 26 BGB, einzelvertretungsberechtigt|Executive Board: Alexander Mauz, Sonja Wiekenberg-Mlalandle, Jens von Bargen VR 17651 Amtsgericht K?ln Spenden|Donations: IBAN DE90 4306 0967 4103 7264 00? BIC GENODEM1GLS ________ 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/20240710/6ae6f1c7/attachment.html>
Unfortunately, there are hardly any answers from developers or Readhat people. Either there is nobody working on the project anymore, or all the people who know what the future of GlusterFS will be have been muzzled by Redhat/IBM. The whole thing shows once again how a company appropriates open source projects and then runs them against the wall in favour of its own solution (in this case GPFS). Am 09.07.24 um 07:53 schrieb Ilias Chasapakis forumZFD:> Hi, we at forumZFD are currently experiencing problems similar to those > mentioned here on the mailing list especially on the latest messages. > > Our gluster just doesn't heal all entries and "manual" healing is long > and tedious. Entries accumulate in time and we have to do regular > cleanups that take long and are risky.? Despite changing available > options with different combinations of values, the problem persists. So > we thought, "let's go to the community meeting" if not much is happening > here on the list. We are at the end of our knowledge and can therefore > no longer contribute much to the list. Unfortunately, nobody was at the > community meeting. Somehow we have the feeling that there is no one left > in the community or in the project who is interested in fixing the > basics of Gluster (namely the healing). Is that the case and is gluster > really end of life? > > We appreciate a lot the contributions in the last few years and all the > work done. As well as for the honest efforts to give a hand. But would > be good to have an orientation on the status of the project itself. > > Many thanks in advance for any replies. > > Ilias > > > ________ > > > > 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 -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3477 bytes Desc: Kryptografische S/MIME-Signatur URL: <http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20240711/eaedeb27/attachment.p7s>