Gluster users - Apr 2011 - Installation Question

Hello,

I'm researching a good base install for my gluster server pool config.

 

I would like to use CentOS => 5.1

I  would like to use ext4 (have to support 12GB files)

I see "Gluster recommends Ext4 (for Linux kernel 2.6.31 or higher) and
Ext3 (for all earlier versions) when formatting the disk sub-subsystem"

CentOS 5.5 comes with 2.6.18 and does not offer a 2.6.31 or higher
kernel through yum updates.  Compiling the latest from linux.org is of
course possible but will need to be thoroughly tested.

 

Has anyone had success with CenOS 5.5, ext4 with a 2.6.3X kernel before
I tread down this path?  I have of course searched Google for this but
have not seen anything quite what I am doing.

 

 

Thanks!

Greg

gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org wrote on 04/06/2011 07:13:10 PM:
> Has anyone had success with CenOS 5.5, ext4 with a 2.6.3X kernel before
> I tread down this path?  I have of course searched Google for this but
> have not seen anything quite what I am doing.
I'm currently running on RHEL 5.6 (upgraded from 5.5) with ext4 for my
filesystems.  Everything seems fine.

-greg

On 04/06/2011 08:13 PM, Gregor Huber wrote:

> Has anyone had success with CenOS 5.5, ext4 with a 2.6.3X kernel before
> I tread down this path?  I have of course searched Google for this but
> have not seen anything quite what I am doing.
We ship all our GlusterFS based systems with Centos 5.5 with a 
2.6.32.22.scalable kernel.  Works very well.

This said, we'd recommend xfs for large backing file systems, over ext*.


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