[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS Roadmap: Erasure codes.

2008-04-23 Thread Rodney McDuff
I was just looking at the GlusterFS Roadmap and thought that a nifty feature for the future would be an AFR-like translator that uses Reed-Solomon erasures codes instead for file replication. That would add many 9s to the reliability without adding much storage overhead. -- Dr. Rodney G. McDuff

[Gluster-devel] Mac OS X 10.5.2 compilation issues with 1.3.8pre5

2008-04-06 Thread Rodney McDuff
1) xlators/cluster/afr/src/afr_self_heal.c. Should use limits.h *** afr_self_heal.c.distMon Apr 7 09:18:26 2008 --- afr_self_heal.c Mon Apr 7 09:20:48 2008 *** *** 22,28 --- 22,32 #include fnmatch.h #include sys/time.h #include stdlib.h + #ifdef

[Gluster-devel] [client-protocol.c:4605:client_checksum_cbk] no proper reply from server

2008-04-01 Thread Rodney McDuff
Hi All I have 4 sets of 3 deep AFRs unified together with one of the 4 AFRs as a namespace. (See server and client config attached). The servers and client are glusterfs-1.3.8pre4 running on Mac OSX 10.5.2. The client volume mounts ok and I can read and write files to it. Looking at the server

[Gluster-devel] Glusterfs on Mac OS X

2008-02-28 Thread Rodney McDuff
I see on the Glusterfs wiki FAQ that Glusterfs has been tested on Mac OS X. Can I get a bit more info on this, ie which gluster revision was used, which OS version, config flags etc. I have access to 300 iMac (each with 250G drive) running 10.5 and I want to put the excess diskspace (some 60TB)

[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS on Mac OS X

2008-02-19 Thread Rodney McDuff
Hi All The GlusterFS wiki implies that GlusterFS works on OSX. However its seems that the native pthread library and headers don't support the likes of pthread_spin_destroy etc. Has anyone actually built GlusterFS on a OSX box. If so care to share. -- Dr. Rodney G. McDuff |Ex