To anyone not aware, I'm a Fedora user. I've been using Fedora for my desktop machines since my 16MHz 386. There's seldom any severe issues, but occasionally there are. I abandoned Nvidia due to their abysmal support for Linux. [Read more...]
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 life things and didn't even have time to read the announcement, much less any of the buzz around it. [Read more...]
'GlusterFS communicates over TCP. This allows for stateful handling of file descriptors and locks. If, however, a server fails completely, kernel panic, power loss, some idiot with a reset button... the client will wait for ping-timeout (42 by the defaults) seconds before abandoning that TCP connection. This is important because re-establishing FDs and locks can be a very expensive operation. As glusterbot says in #gluster:' [Read more...]
I had a computer with some bad ram that created a corrupt index in Elasticsearch. After trying all weekend and half of Monday to figure out how to get Elasticsearch running again with no response on the IRC channel, I eventually figured it out with the help of some obscure email references to references. [Read more...]
'I retweeted the other day:' [Read more...]
'A couple times a year someone comes in to #gluster and thinks it would be awesome to ave a puppet module that you could define servers and the pupet module would automatically manage adding those servers as peers and dynamically changing volumes to utilize the new assets. They get inspired and start writing manifests... then they realize they actually have to get something completed and abandon that pie-in-the-sky philosophy and just use the very convenient cli.' [Read more...]
I have generic users that are logged in automatically since they're not allowed user prefs anyway, and it would be more of a hindrance in their environment. [Read more...]
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. [Read more...]
Somebody today asked if GlusterFS could be made as fast as a local filesystem. My answer just came out without a ton of thought behind it, but I found it rather profound. [Read more...]
Any service I can set up redundantly I, obviously, do. A couple years ago I set up redundant ldap servers. Last year my certificated expired and I generated new ones, not paying any attention to the serial id. Unfortunately, I generated two certificates with duplicate serials. sssd recognized that and failed to authenticate users via ldaps. My company's security requirements are relatively lax so I've just been authenticating over insecure ldap. That just annoys the hell out of me, though, and I've been wanting to fix it - but fix it the right way. Since I can't buy a CA from one of the big boys, I wanted to run my own CA server. [Read more...]
