A few weeks ago, “Software Defined Storage” and “Open” were all the news in the “cloud” industry as EMC announced they had an “Open” “Software Defined Storage” solution. I heard the news and rolled my eyes. Yeah, right. … but I was busy with real lif…

I went into this expecting problems. Fedora 19 ships with GlusterFS 3.4.0 beta and I’m using GlusterFS 3.3 in production. I expected that I would have to downgrade my Fedora packages so I could use my volumes. I expected problems.
What I didn’t expect …

Had a potential GlusterFS user state that the filesystem incorrectly reported that a write succeeded even though all the servers were powered off. Since this sounded rather impossible, I asked for details and duplicated the problem. This is the php cod…

On Sunday, March 18th, Fan Yong commited a patch against ext4 to “return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage type”. Prior to that, ext2/3/4 would return a 32-bit hash value from telldir()/seekdir() as NFSv2 wasn’t designed to accomidate anything…

I had a problem where /lib/dri/r600_dri.so was left behind on a x86_64 system during an upgrade from F14 to F15 using the Anaconda DVD upgrade. Not noticing this was a 32 bit app, when I couldn’t figure out why the error message was showing up from a l…

Over 300 downloads so far, and not one bit of feedback. If you download the beta and it fixes the problem where you search for a location (that you know is there) and nothing comes up, let me know! I need your feedback!Thanks.