Jon, try moosefs. http://www.moosefs.org/
we tried both gluster and ceph, they both failed in many ways. moosefs passed the same tests with flying colors. moose is your friend. On 11/24/2012 07:54 PM, Jonathan Lefman wrote:
I am sorry; I really didn't intend for this to be insulting. First of all, to the hard-working people who make this tool available, I want to apologize if my remarks came across as insulting or anything like that. I want it to be clear that this was not my intention. Perhaps my choice of words should have been chosen more wisely so that I gave a better indication of what I want to find out. My goal of the comments was to get information if I am at a dead-end for my task. I feel that I am there. I was hoping to get feedback if others have used something else successfully. I was hoping that someone would reply to me that I am incorrect about what I am experiencing and tell me that I must have forgotten to do something or check something out. Thank you for letting me know right away and sending me feedback. -Jon On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Joe Julian <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Please don't insult the people that work hard to give you a free tool, nor those who spend their own limited time to offer you free support. If you need to try a different tool, but just do. We don't need to hear about it. If you have found a bug or have encountered a problem, ask for help if you want help. File a bug report if you want it fixed. All insults do is create frustration. Jonathan Lefman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: My gluster volume is more-or-less useless from an administration point of view. I am unable to stop the volume because it claims it is rebalancing or gluster says the command failed. When I try to stop, start, or get the status of rebalancing, I get nothing returned. I have stopped and restarted all glusterfsd processes on each host. Nothing seems to bring sanity back to the volume. This is bad news for gluster's reliability. I am unable to find a source of the problem. Regular methods for resetting the system to usable state are not working. I think it is time to call it quits and find another solution. Ceph? On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Jonathan Lefman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: At the same time, when looking at the rebalance log, it appears that the rebalance is still going on in the background because I am seeing entries related to rebalancing. However, the detail status command shows that the distribution for files is still stable on the older nodes. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Jonathan Lefman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Volume type: non-replicated, 29 nodes, xfs formats Number of files/directories: There are about 5000-10000 directories Average size of files: There are two distributions of files: a vast majority of files is around 200-300 kilobytes, with about 1000-fold fewer files with a size around 1 gigabyte Average number of files per directory: Around 1800 files per directory glusterd log below: When trying sudo gluster volume rebalance essess_data status OR sudo gluster volume status myvol operation failed Log for this time from /var/log/glusterfs/etc-glusterfs-glusterd.vol.log: [2012-11-23 13:05:00.489567] E [glusterd-handler.c:458:glusterd_op_txn_begin] 0-management: Unable to acquire local lock, ret: -1 [2012-11-23 13:07:09.102007] I [glusterd-handler.c:2670:glusterd_handle_status_volume] 0-management: Received status volume req for volume essess_data [2012-11-23 13:07:09.102056] E [glusterd-utils.c:277:glusterd_lock] 0-glusterd: Unable to get lock for uuid: ee33fd05-135e-40e7-a157-3c1e0b9be073, lock held by: ee33fd05-135e-40e7-a157-3c1e0b9be073 [2012-11-23 13:07:09.102073] E [glusterd-handler.c:458:glusterd_op_txn_begin] 0-management: Unable to acquire local lock, ret: -1 On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Vijay Bellur <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 11/23/2012 11:14 PM, Jonathan Lefman wrote: The rebalance command has run for quite a while. Now when I issue the rebalance status command, sudo gluster volume rebalance myvol status I get nothing back; just a return to the command prompt. Any ideas of what is going on? A few questions: - What is your volume type? - How many files and directories do you have in your volume? - What is the average size of files? - What is the average number of files per directory? - Can you please share glusterd logs from the time when the command returns without displaying any output? Thanks, Vijay -- Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
_______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
