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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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HW/SW Design: 2 Petabyte of storage

Disclaimer Yes I'm asking you to design a system for me :) I'm tasked to design a system to store about 10 TB / day with a retention time of 180 days. My first approach would be to go with GlusterFS and use a HW setup like this: Single Node in the…
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Solution for two-way file-system transparent solution

I need to implement some sort of HA setup where 2 servers need to be able to always be in sync, no matter on which one you write on. The DB part can be covered by a master-master replication setup. However, when it comes to files and content I…
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Can you create a glusterfs with existing data in a directory?

I'm looking into convert a single server/comp into the start of a glusterfs distributed system. I already have a directory mounted on this server of 24TB RAID. I want to use this initial computer to setup glusterfs with this volume/directory and…
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GlusterFS peer appears disconnected in one of the peers

I have am using a GlusterFS cluster with a Trusted Storage Pool consisting out of 4 peers. example-prod (100.100.250.197) example-storage1 (100.100.248.178) example-storage2 (100.100.250.25) example-storage3 (100.100.255.40) It is working…
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GlusterFS Client - Check if sync finished

I want to use GlusterFS with my web server. Before I bring a new web server instance online in the load balancer, I was wondering if there's a way to check if the files are done syncing? For example, if I have 50,000 files on the Gluster Server, is…
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GlusterFS alternative for file upload website

I have a few file upload websites, with files ranging from hundreds of kilobytes to a few gigabytes. Currently I have all files in a distribute-replicate Gluster volume on a few servers. My biggest problem with Gluster is speed. For example I…
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root access to GlusterFS volume with root-squash

I want to export my glusterfs volume with the option server.root-squash enabled, so that clients (over which I have no control) can't perform actions as root on the volume. However I, as and admin, would like to still be able to access files as…
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Using Glusterfs Dist-Replica Storage Pool for Hyper-V Virtual Machine Storage

Am chasing down some information regarding an upcoming project. So Basically we have a large Glusterfs Dist-Replica Storage pool running on ubuntu and we want to have several virtual machines running off this from our windows 2012 server, Now we are…
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gluster libgfapi HA

I was exploring KVM_qemu with gluster distributed storage. My goal was to build a test cluster with complete HA . i.e HA for VMs as well as gluster storage . I'm planning to setup a 3 node gluster cluster and use qemu gluster driver with libgfapi…
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How to monitor GlusterFS clients?

We are doing Ok (we'd like to think) monitoring our GlusterFS servers via Icinga. We'd like to monitor the clients too. Other than making sure, there is a glusterfs process running for each glusterfs-entry in /etc/fstab, what else can be done? We'd…
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How to prevent a service from starting until a volume is mounted?

Using Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04, how can I prevent an upstart service from starting until a couple of network volumes (GlusterFS) get successfully mounted?
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GlusterFS Mount Keeps Disconnecting Randomly

We are using GlusterFS to provide a distributed file system on 2 web servers which use a shared media directory and cache. So i have created 2 gluster volumes (media and var) and have mounted these in /var/www/site/media and /var/www/site/var/. Each…
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Distributed storage

At my University Department we are about to upgrade the computers of our student lab (about 25-30 machines). The machines will be running Linux. One thing about the new machines is that they have huge (1TB) hard disks (we did not ask for them, but…
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installing glusterfs on amazon ec2

My drupal website running on Amazon EC2 cloud. My instances use S3 storage for dynamic files. But I realized that S3 is too slow and it may cause problems. I want to use glusterfs instead of S3. To use glusterfs; Which Linux AMI should I use? (I…
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Gluster bricks are offline and errors in logs

I have substituted all the IP addresses with hostnames and renamed configs (IP to hostname) in /var/lib/glusterd by my shell script. After that I restarted Gluster Daemon and the volume. Then I checked if all the peers are…
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