Gluster users - Sep 2010 - getting started

Hello,
    I am getting started with GlusterFS and am starting with the latest version
of Ubuntu.  Is it recommended to use the standard or the cloud version of
Ubuntu?  Is another OS recommended?
  Thanks

Charles Martin
Senior Programmer Analyst
Academic Technologies
The George Washington University
814 20th St NW Suite 306A
Washington, DC 20052

Hi Charles,

I started using Glusterfs back in June. I initially tried 3.0.4 on 
Debian Squeeze. We ran into some problems as detailed at 
http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2010-June/004841.html (and 
previous mails in that thread).

I note that it was a testing release of Debian which brings its own 
complications, but I also note that Ubuntu uses a lot of the packages 
from Debian. I also notice there has since been a 3.0.5 release.

But we did end up switching to CentOS for that GlusterFS 3.0.4 
deployment and didn't experience any similar problems.

We're mainly a Debian/Ubuntu shop - but if you're trying things out, you
might want to consider doing an install on a vanilla CentOS.

-stephen


On 16/09/10 23:01, Charles Martin wrote:
> Hello,
>      I am getting started with GlusterFS and am starting with the latest
version of Ubuntu.  Is it recommended to use the standard or the cloud version
of Ubuntu?  Is another OS recommended?
>    Thanks
>
> Charles Martin
> Senior Programmer Analyst
> Academic Technologies
> The George Washington University
> 814 20th St NW Suite 306A
> Washington, DC 20052
>
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Charles Martin <cdmartin at gwu.edu>
wrote:
> Hello,
> ? ?I am getting started with GlusterFS and am starting with the latest
version of Ubuntu. ?Is it recommended to use the standard or the cloud version
of Ubuntu? ?Is another OS recommended?
I honestly think the flavour of distro is rather irrelevant.   Gluster
themselves supply updated packages of glusterfs and the relevant tools
in many native packaging formats:

http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.0/LATEST/

I got my first Gluster test up and running on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04LTS
using the supplied packages, and upgraded to the Gluster-provided
binaries without any problems soon after.

As for Ubuntu itself, the only differences between "standard",
"cloud"
and "server" are rather moot when it comes to something like Gluster.
And like many distros, it's just how they package it - you can install
a standard desktop Ubuntu, and at a later date replace the kernel with
the "server" kernel without any dramas.

-Dan