Gluster users - Mar 2011 - Gluster geo location setup?

Hiya

I would like to know if you can or if anyone is using Gluster in a 
geolocation setup for a Distributed filesystem sense.

Reason I ask is. I got this two machines, and they are continents apart 
(Datacentre South Africa (Johannesburg) and Datacentre Germany). 
Currently Im using rsync to pull all updated and modified files.
I was hoping I could use Gluster as a Active / Active Filesystem.

If someone could share any thoughts or suggestions, it would be appreciated.
Kind Regards
Brent Clark

As far as I know it's not currently supported by gluster. But they are
planning to come out with this in next release (I think). But details
of how it works and what features exactly it's going to provide is not
available. I have asked several times and have not got any response.

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Brent Clark <brentgclarklist at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Hiya
>
> I would like to know if you can or if anyone is using Gluster in a
> geolocation setup for a Distributed filesystem sense.
>
> Reason I ask is. I got this two machines, and they are continents apart
> (Datacentre South Africa (Johannesburg) and Datacentre Germany). Currently
> Im using rsync to pull all updated and modified files.
> I was hoping I could use Gluster as a Active / Active Filesystem.
>
> If someone could share any thoughts or suggestions, it would be
appreciated.
> Kind Regards
> Brent Clark
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As others responded, Gluster is not ready for WAN scenarios, and it is unclear
if/when it will be...
I am following the Gluster project closely, and have been using it for a year
now on various internal test clusters.

What can work for you right now is a project called 'sector-sphere'. It
is actually built with WAN in mind, is more secure than Gluster (uses
encryption), and even supports a topology map, something Gluster does not do
(yet).

(And by the way, even when it IS finally announced in Gluster, then based on my
experience with Gluster, I would be very wary to use the first version until a
second or third version is released with bug fixes/improvements for the WAN
mechanisms. Not trying to diss the technology, just being responsible and think
you should be cautious and test things out thoroughly before pushing anything to
production!).


On Mar 19, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Brent Clark wrote:
> Hiya
> 
> I would like to know if you can or if anyone is using Gluster in a
geolocation setup for a Distributed filesystem sense.
> 
> Reason I ask is. I got this two machines, and they are continents apart
(Datacentre South Africa (Johannesburg) and Datacentre Germany). Currently Im
using rsync to pull all updated and modified files.
> I was hoping I could use Gluster as a Active / Active Filesystem.
> 
> If someone could share any thoughts or suggestions, it would be
appreciated.
> Kind Regards
> Brent Clark
> _______________________________________________
> Gluster-users mailing list
> Gluster-users at gluster.org
> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users