Dockit & Docker Global Hackathon.

Dockit was one of the project in Docker Global Hackathon held on Nov 1 2014. As part of hackathon submission, I have prepared 2 mins video of Dockit and its here. I would request you to cast your vote by facebook like/tweet/g+1 after searching for “Dockit” @ https://www.docker.com/community/globalhackday

References:
https://github.com/humblec/dockit/
http://blog.gluster.org/category/filesystems/

Docker + GlusterFS = Dockit (An easy way of GlusterFS deployment with Docker)

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libgfapi interface of GlusterFS

One of the known methods to access glusterfs is via fuse module. However, it has some overhead or performance issues because of the number of context switches which need to be performed to complete one i/o transaction as shown below. To over come this limitation, a new method called ‘libgfapi’ is introduced. libgfapi support is …

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Play with libgfapi and its python bindings..

What is libgfapi ? User-space library for accessing data in GlusterFS Filesystem-like API Runs in application process no FUSE, no copies, no context switches …but same volfiles, translators, etc. Could be used for Apache/nginx modules, MPI I/O (maybe), Ganesha, etc. ad infinitum BTW it’s usable from Python too 🙂 Yes, I copied it from http://rhsummit.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/darcy_th_1040_glusterfs.pdf …

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