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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: Cannot access KVM vm through libgfapi if not on local brick

5 blades are gluster bricks and KVM hosts at the same time. Gluster version: 3.8.3 OS: Arch Everything works happily with FUSE mount and disks are defined as type file. If I change the disk definition to use libgfapi, then I can still start the VM…
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Storage replication/mirror for web application

I'm looking for some guidance and advice from people who did that before me. I have a web application that is hosted in one single VPS. Now I'm setting up infrastructure to expanded and make it highly available. I'm willing to use two web servers…
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Gluster file system used space seen by df

On a gluster file system with arbiter (quorum) volume, df report free/used space of arbiter volume insted of actual space available. Scenario is made up of 3 server, one for quorum briks For all servers: [root@arbiter ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release…
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How to display an option value of a GlusterFS server

How can I display a value of an option for a GluserFS server. GlusterFS Documentation talks only about setting option values: gluster volume set, e.g. gluster volume set test-volume performance.cache-size 256MB There is no mention of inspecting…
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GlusterFS rebalancing volume failed

We are using GlusterFS 3.7.11 for distributed/replicated volume. originally the volume was formed from 4 bricks each on one dedicated node. we added 4 nodes to our design and in order to extend the volume capacity we added 4 bricks (each on one of…
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Speeding up GlusterFS in AWS

I needed a good NFS storage cloud in AWS, and since EFS is just in preview mode, I did some research, and GFS looked like it would be the best bet. Currently, I have two servers that are part of one cluster, each is using an EBS volume for the…
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Restoring brick on new server failes -

I am triying to attach a brick from another server to a local gluster development server. Therfore I have done a dd from a snapshot on production and a dd on the lvm volume on development. Then I deleted the .glusterfs folder on root.…
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Permission denied with Openshift PersistentStorage on GlusterFS

I'm trying to use OpenShift with PersistentStorage on a GusterFS cluster. I'm starting one of the default templates : mysql-persistent I've installed a GlusterFS cluster and create a volume gv_mysql_01 I've added the glusterfs endpoints in openshift…
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Changing files in glusterfs volume instead of using a client

I have a volume with replication factor 2 on 2 nodes. So that each brick contains its own copy of all files... Is it possible to avoid using glusterfs client and write/read to/from volume directory directly? It seems to be working exactly as if I…
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Glusterd won't start after node crash

We had a 2 node cluster running GlusterFS. It's a 4 volume cluster, replica 2, one brick per server. Dead server: nnfs02 Live server with all data: nnfs03 New server: nnfs01 After nnfs02 died, we added nnfs01 and was able to remove the bricks for…
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DFS-style Replication for Samba?

I've been snooping around here for a while, and it looks as if glusterfs might be the answer to my question. However, I am fairly new to this, so a sanity check would be much appreciated! My setup is two Samba boxes at two geographically disparate…
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How to automate GlusterFS backups with snapshots and dd?

I want to automate backups on a glusterfs 3.7.3 share with snapshots. Creating snapshots on a LVM manualy works, but how are they secured to a different server? I was able manage that process manually by doing the following: sudo umount…
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Freshly created LVs do not survive reboot - check of thinpool failed

In order to use gluster snapshots, I am trying to create LVs through LVM as thinly provisioned logical volumes are needed to make gluster snapshots work. Creation works, but the setup does not survive a reboot. Somewhere in the process there must…
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rsync crashes machine while performing sync on glusterfs mounted share

I am running ubuntu 14.04 as guest inside virtualbox 5.0.3 on OS X. While performing rsync on a glusterfs (3.7.x) mounted share with over 100.000 files, the entire machine crashes. There is one particular /var/log/syslog entry of interest: INFO:…
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How to partition directory system for GlusterFS?

We have 3 folders on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine, with each one containing 250K pictures with the size of 2KB-30KB in each folder, expecting to grow until 1M files per directory. While trying to scale the Application to several servers we are looking…
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