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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 mount on boot on clustered servers - RHEL 7

I have configured gluserfs on a pair of servers and I'm able to mount this on my client machines. I want to also be able to mount the glusterfs filesystem on both of the glusterfs servers on boot when I take both machines offline and start them…
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Is GlusterFS a good pick for keeping webservers in sync?

I've got 2 webservers, with the chance of having to add more servers along the way. Right now I keep these servers in synch using lsyncd + csync2. It works well performance wise because all files are on both servers (no network access required to…
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GlusterFS is failing to mount on boot

I'm running the official GlusterFS 3.5 packages on an Ubuntu 12.04 box that is acting as both, client and server, and everything seems to be working fine, except mounting the GlusterFS volumes at boot time. This is what I see in the log…
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How to lower Gluster FS down peer timeout / reduce down peer impact?

The setting: Two fresh CentOS 6.5 server with latest updates. Both have a fresh install of Gluster 3.5.2. What I did ( from the perspective of server 2, shared1 and shared2 are logical volumes ) : wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d…
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GlusterFS failing to mount at boot with Ubuntu 14.04

Previously I asked about mounting GlusterFS at boot in an Ubuntu 12.04 server and the answer was that this was buggy in 12.04 and worked in 14.04. Curious I gave it a try on a virtual machine running on my laptop and in 14.04 it worked. Since this…
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excessive glusterfs memory usage

I run a 3-node glusterfs 3.10 cluster based on Heketi to automatically provision and deprovision storage via Kubernetes. Currently, there are 20 volumes active - most with the minimum allowed size of 10gb, but each having only a few hundred mb of…
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How to properly configure a 2 node glusterfs system?

I am trying to make a 2 node linux servers with high available apache using glusterfs 3.7.6 for data replication and pacemaker+corosync as resource manager. However i'm seeing a problem with gluster in the specific scenario when both nodes get…
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Gluster + ZFS, deadlock during benchmarking: zfs_iput_taskq 100% cpu

First some background: I work at a company that runs a PHP-webapplication. We have a storage backend mounted over NFS on several webservers. Today we have the issue if one webserver writes a file over NFS, sometimes the file does not appear at other…
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DRBD vs. GlusterFS for replication

I need to build a solution to host internal git repositories. It needs to supports hundreds of thousands (or more) repositories. I plan on using multiple "dumb" servers with a shared storage, so basically when a client is trying to access a…
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Distributed file system with local disk cache

My server infrastructure is growing fast and I decided to create a distributed storage cluster. I've been looking for a proper filesystem for this task which meet my requirement, but none of them supports a local disk cache functionality. Each of my…
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Can someone explain this GlusterFS setup?

After digging around to understand how to setup replication using gluster I've come across this question: Can Apache Read The GlusterFS Brick Directly But Write To The GlusterFS Mount? I've also found a how that seems to explain the same thing, and…
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Experience with MooseFS?

Anyone have any experience using MooseFS? I want an easy distributed storage platform to store static data archive of about 10 TB and serve it to 20-40 nodes. Also I want to be able to add storage as the archive grows without having to rebuild the…
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MogileFS/GlusterFS/etc + Amazon EBS + Amazon EC2

I have a web application that serves binary files (images, etc). Our application runs on Amazon EC2. We were originally going to use Amazon S3 to store and serve these files, this is no longer an option. We need to transfer these files over HTTPS…
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GlusterFS Transport endpoint not connected from time to time

I'm using GlusterFS 3.7.9, currently on a single server with 4 bricks. Each brick has 4TB and the volume is set up as distribute only. The volume is mounted on a secondary server and I use it for backup purposes. The problem is that once every…
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Google Cloud Storage Fuse vs GlusterFS, pros, cons and costs

I'm setting up some web servers on Google Cloud Compute and I need a directory synced between all the servers to keep the web sites in sync. I'd also like to use the autoscaling feature to provision new servers when needed. I realise GlusterFS…
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