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GlusterFS is a scale-out NAS file system that runs over Ethernet or Infiniband RDMA interconnect. GlusterFS is now owned by Red Hat.

GlusterFS is a scale-out NAS file system. It is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL v3. It aggregates various storage servers over Ethernet or Infiniband RDMA interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design without compromising performance. It has found a variety of applications including cloud computing, biomedical sciences and archival storage. GlusterFS was developed originally by Gluster, Inc., then by Red Hat, Inc., after their purchase of Gluster in 2011.

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GlusterFS vs Mogile vs Others?

I have been looking at GlusterFS and MogileFS (Ceph and BTRFS are off the cards for me, as they don't seem production ready yet). I am developing a web app for file sharing, that will store and retrieve files from a distributed file system. It's…
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Amazon AutoScaling and GlusterFS

I have setup Elastic load balancing with 5 EC2 instance registered with the load balancer. To our website users upload their data(images), we store these images in network attached storage (NAS). We have the NAS mounted on all the instances. We are…
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Hypervisor and GlusterFS (or similar) on same physical host?

I've inherited a bunch of hardware from a failed project. They're SuperMicro 2U servers with 24x SATA HDD or SSDs. I've been tasked with turning this rack of generic hardware into a IaaS cluster. I'm an old hand with Xen and the show-stopper bug for…
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GlusterFS as elastic file storage?

Is there any way to run GlusterFS in a replicated mode, but with the ability to dynamically scale the volume up and down? Say you have 3 servers all running glusterd. your Gluster volume would have to be setup with replica 3 gluster volume create…
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How do cluster file systems avoid race conditions?

How do cluster file systems avoid the myriad of possible race conditions? I'm trying to get a grip on using a cluster file system in a Master-Master architecture. I'm thinking specifically about GlusterFS, so implementation details for it are…
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Should I use GlusterFS as storage pool for KVM/Xen virtual machines?

Do you think that KVM (or XEN) virtual machine using GlusterFS as storage will be really slow? My idea is to use GlusterFS to avoid the limits of the local file system. If an hypervisor will go down, another one could take care of the 'orphans' VMs.…
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recommend storage platform: Gluster Vs Nexenta

there is a new release version 3.0: http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_Storage_Platform has anyone tried this for VM storage? how does this compare to any ZFS based storage solution like Nexenta etc in terms of…
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gluster IOPS performance

Can "gluster" serve FLV files without any front-end server layers just using the built-in HTTP protocol ? How would the IOPS compare to standard apache serving? Would gluster help me with I/O limits of harddrives, if I chained a lot of machines…
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Creating replicated gluster volume always gives Distributed-Replicate volume

Peace upon you, I am trying to create a replicated gluster volume but always it gives me Distributed-Replicate volume i followed the following commands Pool Peers root@tiny1:~# gluster peer status Number of Peers: 2 Hostname: userver Uuid:…
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What are the "alternatives" to Heketi for Kubernetes?

I have built a working GlusterFS cluster, and now I want to make a Kubernetes StorageClass that uses it. I see a number of tutorials and documentation pointing to Heketi as the provisioner engine. Looking at that page, however, it has the following…
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GlusterFS volume stalls / blocks after quick access for PHP session files from PHP Docker container

2021-10-05 UPDATED QUESTION AND TEXT AFTER MORE ANALYSIS, STRIPPED DOWN TO MINIMAL CASE Short description A Nomad / Consul cluster is running, with Traefik (with minimal configuration) as a system task on each Nomad client. There are 3 nomad…
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Glusterfs on Synology NAS?

I run a machine-learning cluster for my small business. The cluster consists of three Ubuntu servers. The 10TB /home directory, provided by Server 1, is shared across all servers and is almost full. I'm thinking of adding additional storage. One…
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I'm looking for a way to configure distance clustering of postfix and dovecot

I currently have a postfix server and dovecot server sharing files from an NFS server in the UK and the same config in Switzerland. I tried to mailsync but that appeared to lose emails, so then I tried doveadm replication but keeps coredumping and…
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Can I directly alter files located in a GlusterFS brick

On a storage node, GlusterFS bricks (the physical disks composing a GlusterFS volume) are typically mounted at a specific location. For example: /export/glusterfs//brick0/brick. However to use a GlusterFS volume, it must be mounted: mount -t…
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How should I recover from Ovirt and GlusterFS partial failure?

I am managing a 3 node Ovirt 4.3.7 cluster with a hosted engine appliance; the nodes are also glusterfs nodes. The systems are: ovirt1 (node at 192.168.40.193) ovirt2 (node at 192.168.40.194) ovirt3 (node at 192.168.40.195) ovirt-engine (engine at…
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