Subject: Re: [vserver] cluster file system and vserver
From: Mike O'Connor <vserver@pineview.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:58:39 +0930

Hi Edward

You example uses the file system mounted inside of a guest, did you 
tried running the guest on the glusterfs ?

Mike

Edward Capriolo wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Martin Fick <mogulguy@yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have been toying with the idea of using glusterfs over drbd to run my vservers,
but I have not tried it yet.  Please let me know how it works if you do try it. :)
>>
>> -Martin
>>
>>
>> --- On Tue, 7/15/08, ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@aqueos.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> From: ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@aqueos.com>
>>> Subject: [vserver] cluster file system and vserver
>>> To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
>>> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 4:19 AM
>>> Hello list :)
>>>
>>>
>>>   I wanted to know if any of you have experiences on
>>> cluster file system
>>> or distributed FS :
>>>
>>> - starfish
>>> - glusterfs
>>> - hadoopfs
>>> - lustre
>>>
>>> and their use with vserver setup. I think i will test some
>>> of those for
>>> a future setup and wondered if you guys had any experience
>>> with them in
>>> term of performances and reliability ?
>>>
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Ghislain.
>>>       
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
> I have setup glusterfs between vservers. It seems to work well under
> very limited testing. I do not understand why you would need to run
> gluster ontop of  DRBD, but you probably can prove me wrong. I am sure
> there are good reasons to :)
>
> I wrote a doc on using glusterfs.
> http://linux-vserver.org/Fuse_GlusterFS
>
> luster is not going to compile well on vserver. Something about the
> luster patching of the kernel does not work well with vserver
> patching.
>
> Hadoop will run but that is a userspace filesystem. All you need is
> java to get that running.
>
> Good luck
>