Fedora 17, OpenStack Essex & Gluster 3.3: All Smushed Together
Within the past couple weeks, Fedora and Gluster rolled out new versions, packed with too many features to discuss in a single blog post. However, a couple of the stand-out updates in each release...
View ArticleHowto: Using UFO (swift) — A Quick Setup Guide
This sets up a GlusterFS Unified File and Object (UFO) server on a single node (single brick) Gluster server using the RPMs contained in my YUM repo at...
View ArticleGlusterFS on ARM — Adding Lower Cost and Lower Power Consumption to Your Storage
Back in February 2011, when I joined what ultimately became part of the GlusterFS development team at Red Hat, I had already been interested in low power — as in low power consumption — computing for a...
View ArticleA Buzzword-Packed Return to Gluster UFO
A little while back, I tested out the Unified File and Object feature in Gluster 3.3, which taps OpenStack’s Swift component to handle the object half of the file and object combo. It took me kind of a...
View ArticleCome to our OpenStack Swift API Sprint at PyCon 2013!
The Gluster Community and SwiftStack would like to invite you to join our sprint at PyCon 2013, taking place in the Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara, CA, on Monday, March 18, 2013. The sprint is meant for...
View ArticleGlusterFS-3.4 and Swift — Where Are All The Pieces
A lot of work has gone into UFO since it shipped in 3.3. For one thing, it’s being renamed — to Gluster For OpenStack, or G4O for short — we think this name better reflects what it is. The source has...
View ArticlePackages for 3rd Party Software with built-in GlusterFS support
Lots of packages are starting to hit the repos with built-in support for GlusterFS. One of the first to appear was libvirt/oVirt and vdsm, which first appeared in Fedora 19. GlusterFS support here lets...
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