Fedora Stakeholders Have Been Debating Whether To Retire GlusterFS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora Stakeholders Have Been Debating Whether To Retire GlusterFS

A discussion that originally started last summer has been reignited: whether it's time to retire GlusterFS within Fedora Linux. But following discussions in recent days, there may be a new packager willing to take over but it doesn't change the fact of declining upstream activity around GlusterFS...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Maybe-Retire-GlusterFS

[mb_q]

This was likely for like 10 years during which RedHat had both Gluster and Ceph. Gluster's composable layers were definitely a more clever solution, but Ceph just delivers what enterprise people want. Hobby data hoarders will still have MooseFS.

[EphemeralEft]

I hope they kill it. My employer uses Gluster on RHEL with an MSP and I’ve been trying to switch them to PNFS for a while. We already use NFS everywhere and it’s free.

[Kemosabe]

I hope they kill it. My employer uses Gluster on RHEL with an MSP and I’ve been trying to switch them to PNFS for a while. We already use NFS everywhere and it’s free.

Oh yeah, NFS! Great that it's free! No problem that it sucks badly!

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Meanwhile Ceph might have more commits in the first 6 days of 2025 than GlusterFS had in all of 2024 (on my phone so it's hard to play with the commit graph).

[slalomsk8er]

From the comments, I gather that it's not just a mature and finished solution that requires just maintenance, but its niche is closing, and it will be history soon.
As I just in the last weeks stumbled over its website and thought it looks interesting, is kind of sad.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

This was likely for like 10 years during which RedHat had both Gluster and Ceph. Gluster's composable layers were definitely a more clever solution, but Ceph just delivers what enterprise people want. Hobby data hoarders will still have MooseFS.

Even hobby data hoarders can use Ceph on Proxmox. Ooh there was some s3 compatible distributed object storage FS I was looking at the other day that seemed neat, MinIO.

[zexelon]

This is really disappointing! GlusterFS works really well in clustered file system space where it has enough performance to be usable at scale without the need for a Phd to assemble like Ceph requires.

[aorth]

I've been managing a small Gluster storage cluster for ten years and I've seen the writing on the wall for some time (reduced mailing list activity, slowed release cadence, etc). For the last few years I've prioritized other stuff at work and the storage cluster has been on autopilot. This is going to be a lot of work and money for me to migrate to something else. Dreading it...

[Britoid]

Replaced a GlusterFS cluster with a JuiceFS one, given object storage is dirt cheap reduced the total costs by around 80%.