Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:53:56 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd@hub.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gclusterfs ... Message-ID: <5803BE560EBD58C6EF0E8FC7@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <fh54hi$nsd$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <1E865507A930162B67FB75DE@ganymede.hub.org> <fh54hi$nsd$1@ger.gmane.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Saturday, November 10, 2007 21:32:36 +0100 Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> Anyone play with this? <http://www.gluster.org>; >> >> It says it runs under FreeBSD, but am curious if anyone is using it 'in >> production' and how well it works ... > > As far as I can see it uses FUSE for the file system driver, and when I > last looked at it (at least our version of...) FUSE doesn't support file > locking (flock(2), etc., not kernel locking), so at best it would be of > limited use (e.g. no databases, mbox mailboxes, etc. on it). Actually, FAQ 'How is locking handled?' NOTE: GlusterFS only supports fcntl() locks, as FUSE itself doesn't support flock() calls. > - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHNhpk4QvfyHIvDvMRAi6VAKDmt0vtcjC22zZDGwhhX/guO2DL2QCfdTQx K/4RyWPlTHioPsM2cyLbITQ= =bP6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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