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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 or DFSR

Been reading (here) and other about GLUSTERFS. Anyone have first hand experience going with DFSR vs. GLUSTERFS or switching between the two? DFSR = Microsoft's Distrubted File System Replication or DFS on top of their file system replication…
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glusterfs and dovecot problems

Ive got two servers with a shared glusterfs disk, both running dovecot and serving mail from this shared disk. Users read mail only from one of these servers but mail gets delivered to both. Occasionally I get problems when accessing the inbox…
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Filesystem redundancy + speed

Looking for some input and if anyone has conquered this problem with a solution they feel confident about. Looking to setup a fault tolerant web environment. So the setup is a few nodes behind a load balancer. Now the web devs can ssh into 1 server…
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GlusterFS with CIFS, quotas and LDAP

Has anyone had experience plugging GlusterFS and Openfiler together or something similar? Here is the motivation: Disk space on multiple server regrouped using GlusterFS Centralized access using LDAP/AD and quota management using Openfiler as the…
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Medium office fileserver: One professional server or multiple cheaper servers in cluster?

What would you recommend for a medium office fileserver? By medium office I mean roughly 100-150 users that connect to the fileserver sporadically during the day. We're talking about 2TB of data and rising. File sizes ranging from a lot of small…
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Can Apache Read The GlusterFS Brick Directly But Write To The GlusterFS Mount?

I currently have 2 web servers (CentOS 5.5) and am using GlusterFS as client/server on both using Automatic File Replication. For both webservers: The GlusterFS mount point is: /mnt/glusterfs/site1 The local GlusterFS brick is …
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Using GlusterFS for simple replication

newbie question. I need to build this: /shared folder ~500GB of files, ~1MB each one. Two boxes (server1 and server2) connected by a 1Gbs LAN Every box needs to get r/w access to the files, so their are both clients I want that the files…
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How to manage processes-to-CPU cores affinities?

I use a distributed user-space filesystem (GlusterFS) and I would like to be sure GlusterFS processes will always have the computing power they need. Each execution node of my grid have 2 CPU, with 4 cores per CPU and 2 threads per core (16…
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Distributed File Systems

So, I've been reading several articles around ServerFault as well as google. (For Example, this link) My Requirements are very similar to the link above, however i'd like to also have dynamic or at least resizeable file volumes, so if necessary i…
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Pitfalls to using Gluster as a home/profile directory server?

I was asking recently about options for divvying up access to file servers, as we have a NAS solution that gets fairly bogged down when our users (with giant profiles, especially) all log in nearly simultaneously. I ran across Gluster and it looks…
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Previously mountable GlusterFS volume now fails to mount with several errors

I've previously set up a couple of GlusterFS volumes (called cyclorana0 and cyclorana1) across two nodes (with IPs 10.0.2.4 (hostname alboguttata) and 10.0.2.5 (hostname verrucosa)) on my LAN. The probe commands, etc. were successful and the two…
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Ceph or Gluster for implementing big NAS

We are planning to build NAS solution which will be primarily used via NFS and CIFS and workloads ranging from various archival application to more “real-time processing”. The NAS will not be used as a block storage for virtual machines, so the…
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Best solution for docker volume persistance

I'd like to setup proper way to persist docker volumes. Currently all our docker volumes are local only, so in case of server failure our data are lost. I'm thinking about buying two servers and setup them both as volume providers. Are nfs servers…
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CTDB Samba failover not highly available

TL;DR Failing a node in a ctdb + samba cluster while interacting with a share interrupts share connection. here and here state there is work in progress to make this possible here states it is already possible with Samba 3.0 (currently using…
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Identifying cause of GlusterFS data corruption

I have been experiencing data corruption when writing data to a replicated GlusterFS volume I have configured across two servers. The configuration I have set up is as follows: Servers are running Ubuntu 16.04 and GlusterFS v3.10.6 Clients are…
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