> Do you have more details on performance and stability issues?
Tried using it for a while (last November until ~April) on Debian Jessie, with latest versions. Lots of bugs with SSL mode, lots of desynchronization issues, crippling performance issues, …
And no matter what I ran into, the bugs were already known and filed for months at that point, with zero developer reaction.
> Gluster is completely in userspace.
Unless you try using its NFS server to get not entirely disastrous performance.
What workloads were you using Gluster for? How did you reach out to the developers? Usually the mailing lists are very responsive and most bugs brought up on the lists are addressed.
> Unless you try using its NFS server to get not entirely disastrous performance.
Wrong again, Gluster's NFS server is in userspace too. Not sure how that can cause a kernel panic.
Sharing config files. Wordpress sites. Django sites. The performance was too shitty for everything.
> How did you reach out to the developers? Usually the mailing lists are very responsive and most bugs brought up on the lists are addressed.
IRC. I ended up finding all my errors unresolved by it in the mailing list archives with zero developer attention, and since I didn't have the time to help RedHat make their product actually usable, I dropped Gluster.
> Not sure how that can cause a kernel panic.
I guess it's technically not a kernel panic if I/O just stalls so hard that you can neither mount nor unmount nor otherwise access any of your NFS targets… but you have to hard reset the whole machine anyway.
we used to run 3 gluster nodes, with a few hundred gb of shared storage..mostly used to keep logs and as war file directory for jboss/tomcat. from what i can tell gluster itself seems ok..but someone also enabled ctdb..which seems to hang every half a year or so..
