Just in time for Halloween, GlusterFS 3.6.0 has been released. The newest release, as you would expect, is full of new features and new elements for stability. GlusterFS, as you may know, is a general-purpose scale out distributed file system. It aggregates storage exports over network interconnects provide a single unified namespace, is stackable and …Read more

Diversity is important to communities. Diversity adds new ideas, new concepts, innovative approaches and unique values. Open source thrives on those same things, and open source communities need to recognize and strive to increase their own diversity. Today, I’d like to share “A Challenge to the Open Storage Community” from Sage Weil. Sage is talking specifically …Read more

Here are the topics this blog is going to cover. Samba Server Samba VFS Libgfapi GlusterFS VFS plugin for Samba and libgfapi Without GlusterFS VFS plugin FUSE mount vs VFS plugin About Samba Server: Samba server runs on Unix and … Continue reading →

I was pleased to read about the progress of Graylog2, ElasticSearch, Kibana, et al. in the past year. Machine data analysis has been a growing area of interest for some time now, as traditional monitoring and systems management tools aren’t capable of keeping up with All of the Things that make up many modern workloads. …Read more

This blog covers the steps and implementation details to use GlusterFS Samba VFS plugin. Please refer below link, If you are looking for architectural information for GlusterFS Samba VFS plugin,  difference between FUSE mount vs Samba VFS plugin http://lalatendumohanty.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/glusterfs-vfs-plugin-for-samba/ I … Continue reading →

Or “How I learned to start worrying and never trust the cloud.” The Clouderati have been derping for some time now about how we’re all going towards the public cloud and “private cloud” will soon become a distant, painful memory, much like electric generators filled the gap before power grids became the norm. They seem …Read more

This post continues my holiday detour into things not necessarily tech related. Forgive me this indulgence – there is at least one more post I’ll make in a similar vein. Open Source communities are different. At least, I’ve always felt that they are. Think of the term “community manager.” If you’re a community manager in …Read more

This is the first in a series of articles about innovation and open computing. Because it’s a holiday time of year in the USA, I’ve decided that these next few articles will be a detour from the usual stuff you’ll find here. Ever since a few of us got together to form the Open Cloud …Read more

tl;dr – This is a long description designed to elicit constructive discussion of some recent Gluster Community governance initiatives. For all things related to Gluster Community Governance, see gluster.org/Governance The recent initiatives around GlusterFS development and project governance have been quite amazing to witness – we have been making steady progress towards a “real” open …Read more

[Editor’s note: This post is the opinion of the author and not necessarily that of the Gluster Community] TLDR:  SourceForge, once a mighty force for the good of Open Source, has fallen far from its previous lofty heights. Dice, the new owners, bribe strongly encourage the top projects to use a new (closed source only) installer …Read more

I wanted to take a moment and share all the things that are going on in the Gluster Community. It really has been an amazing year, and we’re only halfway through. Here’s a recap for those of you watching from … Continue reading →

The people at JetBrains have given the GlusterFS project an “unlimited # of users” license for their cross-platform PyCharm Python IDE: http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/ Everyone has their own preferences with programming IDE’s, and I’ve used several over the years, generally based on Eclipse.  However, I happen to like PyCharm at the moment, so applied for JetBrain’s “free …Read more

Today at Red Hat Summit, Jon Masters, Red Hat’s chief ARM architect, demonstrated GlusterFS replicated on two ARM 64 servers, streaming a video. This marks the first successful demo of a distributed filesystem running on ARM 64. Video and podcast to come soon.    

Today, I’m happy to finally unveil something that we’ve been working on for a couple of months now: the Gluster Community Forge. We noticed some time ago that there were several projects out on the internet that extended GlusterFS, and we thought it would be nice to give them a home, where users could find …Read more

Whenever I give talks at conferences, there’s always one particular topic I make sure to bring up. I’ll ask the audience, “Quick, name a new proprietary enterprise software product to have gained ubiquity in the data center over the last 12 months.” I’ll wait a few seconds, and then, “Ok, 24 months.” After a brief …Read more

It’s that time again! Time to start prepping for a new release of GlusterFS, in this case, 3.4. If you haven’t checked it out yet, grab a source tarball and tell us how it goes. There are also community builds showing up on download.gluster.org for Ubuntu, Fedora and EPEL. Additionally, the Git repo has now …Read more

Hello there, I recently started working on GlusterFS, realizing one of my long awaited dreams of working on a opensource product. This is my new blog for documenting things I learn during this journey. If you are an elite guy, and somehow happened to come across my blog, do tell me if I could be […]

By now, you may have heard about the recent work being done to integrate GlusterFS with QEMU. The engineers at IBM’s Linux Technology Center in Bangalore deserve a lot of credit for their work here. Bharata Rao, Deepak Shetty and Mohan Kumar have been hard at work implementing a GlusterFS device driver for QEMU that …Read more

I forgot to post this at the time, but I had a lovely conversation with Richard Morrell, aka the “Cloud Evangelist” at Red Hat’s UK office. Richard is a jolly bloke with a fair bit to say on all things cloud. We talked about GlusterFS, the Gluster community, and also about Red Hat’s upcoming Developer …Read more

Today, we’re announcing the next generation of GlusterFS, version 3.3. The release has been a year in the making and marks several firsts: the first post-acquisition release under Red Hat, our first major act as an openly-governed project and our first foray beyond NAS. We’ve also taken our first steps towards merging big data and …Read more