[MooseFS-Users] minor quibble with RH/Cent 5 repository for 2.x

[William K. <wk...@bn...>]

So after years of using 1.6.x we finally got a chance to try out version 2.x

Went very well, and we love the new mfscli utility (we were using lynx 
on the cgi before) as well as the other improvements.

The only issue we had was that when we tried to do the yum install 
moosefs-client
on a CentOS5 box, it was unhappy that we had the wrong fuse (2.7 ver 
2.8) and refused to install due to deps on fuse and libpcap

Since we previously always just compiled off source tarball, we simply 
did that and moved on so it was a minor issue, but we were a little 
surprised. I hoping that the older fuse isn't a problem but everything 
seems fine.

Client installs on RH6/RH7 went smoothly and we really like the ability 
to just do the yum install on a minimal chunkserver rather than deal 
with the minor compilation hassle.

But all and all well done.

Now the guys are anxious to get 2.x on the other clusters even though 
they are all working fine.

I am always pleasantly surprised with MooseFS. We run a number of other 
DFS systems (such as Gluster, DRBD, etc) and the techs all prefer 
MooseFS because its so straight forward and just works out of the box.