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admin wrote a new post, Get Yer 3.4 Beta – Open Community FTW

Thu, 09 May 2013 02:31:09 +0000

As the GlusterFest winds down today, I wanted to write a few words about GlusterFS 3.4 and the beta that was just released yesterday. You may have noticed the news release from Red Hat: The Red Hat Storage team […]

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admin wrote a new post, GlusterFS is Ready for OpenStack

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:57:50 +0000

Amidst the madness of the OpenStack Summit a couple of weeks ago, you could be forgiven for not seeing a Red Hat announcement about GlusterFS being “OpenStack-ready”. You may wonder, what exactly do we mean by […]

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admin wrote a new post, Introducing the Gluster Community Forge

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:30:06 +0000

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 […]

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admin wrote a new post, The Death of Proprietary Software

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:29:05 +0000

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 […]

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admin wrote a new post, The Business of Open Source

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:15:09 +0000

As the Gluster Community Lead, I deal with quite a number of moving parts on a daily basis: mailing lists, web sites, groups of volunteers, workshop schedules, budgets and team members. As we go through our […]

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admin wrote a new post, New Release: GlusterFS 3.4alpha

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:45:42 +0000

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 […]

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admin wrote a new post, Linked List Topology with GlusterFS

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:32:26 +0000

Here’s a nice post about creating a linked list topology for a distributed-replicated setup. The idea is that it is easier to add a single server to a replicated volume by spending a bit of extra time prepping a […]

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admin wrote a new post, Extending GlusterFS with Python (Linux Journal)

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:41:46 +0000

Jeff Darcy, Gluster developer extraordinaire with Red Hat, has written an article all about extending our favorite distributed storage system with Python, and he gets into a fair bit of detail with Glupy, his […]

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admin wrote a new post, Gluster Community Office Hours - October 26, 2012

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:02:04 +0000

Gluster Community Office Hours - October 26, 2012. Today, Eco went through some common troubleshooting tips and tricks, with lots of great information on display. Follow along from this page as Eco demonstrates […]

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admin wrote a new post, Gluster Community Office Hours

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:01:56 +0000

We started a new weekly session for community office hours. Today, Eco Willson walked through a getting started basic install. If you have topics in mind that you would like to see us cover in future editions, let […]

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admin wrote a new post, Integration with KVM/QEMU

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:58:06 +0000

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, […]

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admin wrote a new post, Download Server is Down – Building a Replacement

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:35:52 +0000

Greetings, If you’ve been trying to access the download server, I’m afraid it continues to be offline. We will try to have a replacement up and running by tomorrow. In the meantime, you can still access release […]

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admin wrote a new post, DNS Switchover Today

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:56:14 +0000

Greetings, If you’ve noticed some wonky behavior in the mailing lists this morning, it’s due to a DNS switchover. Unfortunately, we have to wait for the reverse DNS to be implemented before everyone can get mail […]

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admin wrote a new post, Podcast with the Cloud Evangelist (Richard Morrell) and John Mark

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:44:00 +0000

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 […]

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admin wrote a new post, Meet Eco Willson, Gluster Community Technical Lead

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:22:36 +0000

If you were a customer of Gluster, Inc. back in the day, you may already be familiar with Eco’s handiwork. I’m happy to report that he’s now full-time on the community side, writing docs, doing meetups and […]

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admin wrote a new post, Using QEMU to Boot VM Image on GlusterFS Volume

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:18:45 +0000

I have been very excited by the progress made recently on the libgfapi and QEMU driver fronts recently. With recently added code to the master branches of QEMU and GlusterFS, you can now talk directly from QEMU to […]

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admin wrote a new post, A time for Christmas Cards... without my picture

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:12:18 +0000

The most wonderful time of the year...Look, there's a reason why older folks tend to show their kids in their blogs - it's because they're just so much cuter.

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admin wrote a new post, Buh-bye, Bay Area; Hello, Boston!

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:27:26 +0000

After 17 years in the Bay Area (for me) and almost 30 years for Cathy, we've decided to unhitch our wagons and do the reverse westward-ho. As Californians like to say, we're going "back east."

Our house in […]

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admin wrote a new post, Zou Bisou, Bisou

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:42:13 +0000

The instant classic party scene from Mad Men's season 5 debut:

Zou Bisou, Bisou

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admin wrote a new post, Jackie Plays Silent Night

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:33:36 +0000

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