Questions tagged [glusterfs]

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 Volume Creation Suggestion

I have to deploy multiple Openshift Clusters from 3 nodes to 10 nodes. For 3 nodes i am creating volumes as replicated. But for 4 and above it doesn't look nice to create replicated volume, so each node has 300GB disk and replicating it to 10 nodes…
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K3S arm64 distributed files systems

I deployed a K3S Cluster on arm64 and I need to have a DFS directly on-premise, It will be better to have it running on the kubernetes stack. Regarding DFS choices there are some options, but...: GlusterFS: Unfortunately CSI drivers is not currently…
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Should I use GlusterFS for mail server?

I'm planing to use GlusterFS for my mail server. But I read that GlusterFS have problems with small file ( and mail are small files). What's the problems with GlusterFS when come to working with small file? I also know that GlusterFS have 2 mount…
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GlusterFS or Ceph RBD for storing Virtual Machine image

I am using glusterfs 5.3 for storing images of virtual machines in Cloudstack/KVM environment, majority of VMs are DB Servers (Sql Server & MariaDB). But I am facing performance issue on VMs specifically on database servers. I get lots of Time out…
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Choosing between GlusterFS replica 2 or 3

I can't figure out the relation between the number of bricks and replica count. I have 4 server nodes and after running the command to create a distributed replicated volume, with a replica count of 2, the following message appears: "Replica 2…
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Glusterfs support for user namespaces

I have a gluster volume mounted on a host machine and tried to run a namespaced docker container with a bind mount from the gluster mount on the host. It seems that the user namespacing is not handled correct for the glusterfs bind mount. My problem…
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Increasing size of .glusterfs directory

I'm using glusterfs 3.3 version. One of my mounted drive (15TB) is show full. After checking, I got that there is a directory .glusterfs which is uses 3TB. I don't know the actual reason of .glusterfs directory is there any impact if I delete the…
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glusterfs for wordpress hosting

I've seen many tutorials recommending glusterfs for distributed web application hosting. Is this really the best practice for small scale load balancing? It seems the latency issue is slowing us down when we test this. Right now we have three…
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Glusterfs FUSE client black magic (automatic high availability)

Quick question regarding the Glusterfs FUSE client black magic. I currently have a gluster 3 node doing a single replica volume. On my gluster fuse client i am pointing to one of the glusterfs nodes as a mount point. I noticed after I shutdown the…
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MongoDB/ElasticSearch in Kubernetes

I am exploring the Kubernetes toolset and have now my dedicated 3 nodes cluster up and running. Next steps are migrating our company projects to the cluster. As we use MongoDB and ElasticSearch and want to host multiple projects within the cluster,…
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Glusterfs dont mirror supposed mirrored folder

Gluster dont replicate mirrored content: xfce4-terminal -T LocalTerm exit At LocalTerm: PS1='[\u@\h]-[\D{%T}]-[\W] => ' lxc profile copy default default-bkp lxc profile set default raw.lxc lxc.apparmor.profile=unconfined clear lxc…
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peer probe: failed: Probe returned with Transport endpoint is not connacted

I want to create 2 server glusterfs but I don't know why when I run command gluster peer probe server1 they have error. Firewalld is active. # gluster peer probe server1 peer probe: fail: Probe returned with Transport endpoint is not connected
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Glusterfs can't set xattr security.selinux

I'm currently trying to use Gluster as storage for docker volumes on Centos 7. The gluster version is 4.0.2. On creation of the volume the files from the container are copied to the new volume. The volume is stored in a gluster mounted directory…
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Glusterfs 2x server issue

I am having almost identical issue, while so can provide more details on how the set up is: 2x server replica 2 gluster volume from two bricks. Brick IMG-01:/images/storage/brick1 49152 0 Y 3497 Brick…
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Gluster snapshot directory error: Transport endpoint is not connected

When I try to access the snapshot directory for a volume, I keep getting .snaps: Transport endpoint is not connected I killed and started the glusterd service but still keep getting that error message. Does anyone has an idea how I can resolve this?…
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