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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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Replace a gluster fs brick with a new server

Important details: We're running gluster 3.2.5 across 4 servers (two at each data center that replicate to the other two) all running debian squeeze (although if possible I would like the "replacement" to be running wheezy as I will format before I…
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What is the best private cloud storage setup

I need to create a private cloud and I'm searching for the best setup. These are my 2 most important requirements 1. Disk and system redundant 2. Price / GB as low as possible The system is going to be used as backup setup which will receive data…
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Cant mount GlusterFS volume on EC2 client

After a few days of trial and error I have successfully created my gluster volume on an EC2 instance (a single one at the moment) and it is successfully started… [root@domU-12-31-39-10-26-7E ec2-user]# gluster volume info Volume Name: gv0 Type:…
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Trying to add more mirror servers

I currently have 2 vps running on the same provider and they serve web files. server1.example.com server2.example.com I used glusterFS to create a file Replication system between 2 nodes. ( server1 is master and server2 is slave ) I am planning to…
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connection lost to glustferfs when amazon ec2 internal ip address changes

My web site running on EC2 instances. Web servers stores dynamic data in glusterfs servers. When the glusterfs instances are restarted, their ip addresses changes, so that web servers lost the connection to glusterfs. How could I fix this problem?
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ec2 instance cant mount glusterfs server

My EC2 instance tries to mount glusterfs volume whic located on another EC2 instance . client instance's /etc/fstab file contains: glusterserver1:/export/brick1 /mnt/glusterfs glusterfs defaults 0 0 when I try to mount it mnt -a But it gives…
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How many Gluster Volumes is allowed in single server

I have created one Gluster Volume sudo gluster volume create devshare transport tcp server1:/mnt/test GFS1 in server1 and able to mount the share on server2 sudo mount -t glusterfs server1:/devshare but when I tried to create a second volume in…
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Owner/Group issue on Mirror server

I am running Gluster-FS with a High-Availability Storage setup. Both client and server nodes have NginX running to serve same files. main.mysite.com mirror1.mysite.com ..etc.. The problem is that the mirror nodes can't serve files because the owner…
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Import Xen Server VHD

I am trialing using a distributed file system as the backend storage for my Xen Servers. I have set up the DFS (distributed file system) (using CentOS and GlusterFS) and everything is working perfectly with suprisingly good IOPS speed, however I am…
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XenServer Offsite Replication

I am trying to find the best way to migrate my VHD's to my DataCenter offsite for DR purposes. Currently I have a number of Xen Stacks setup as the following: Dual RAID ISCSI SAN multipathed to at least two Xen Servers Below is an example…
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Ubuntu 12.04 glusterfs volume failed to mount at boot time

I have just setup 7 KVM guests, all running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit Minimal server to test out glusterfs 3.2.5 from the Ubuntu official repo. Two of them form a mirrored pair (i.e. replica 2), and five of them are clients. I am still new to this file…
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How to configure GlusterFS for a low-latency read, async write setup with a volatile number of nodes?

I need a storage system with the following requirements: Dynamic pool of Linux EC2 application servers (1-20) that autoscale daily Low latency reads Possibly async writes (<5 minutes) Most posix features, except locking Each application server can…
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Mounting GlusterFS share under www-data user

Problem: After directory is auto-mounted, Web Server has no write permissions to it. Question: How to auto-mount GlusterFS endpoint via /etc/fstab so that mount point belongs to www-data after it's mounted? For now, the mount point belongs to…
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Scalable storage backed for serving php/html

I would like to have a scalable storage system as backed for web servers serving php/HTML. I was looking at glusterfs, that seems rather stable. My question is, does it really scale? Can I think to host a lot of loaded website on the top of…
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glusterfs configuration files and chef

Seems impossible to find any info on configuration files for Gluster's most recent version (3.2.x). I'd like to use configuration files as opposed to the CLI because I'd like to automate configuration with chef. Is this possible? When I googled…
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