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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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How can I bind glusterfsd process to an interface (ip)?

I try to bind gluster processes to the internal (lan) interface unsuccessfully. According to the documentation I can bind to IP in /etc/gluster/glusterd.vol # cat /etc/glusterfs/glusterd.vol volume management type mgmt/glusterd option…
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Distributed file system (e.g., glusterfs) without replication

I have a controller server, and two 24 SAS fileserver arrays. Each fileserver array is set up as a ZFS pool with 4 RAIDZ2 vdevs with 6 drives each. Ultimately, I want to be able to use the controller server as a single mount point for the two…
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gluster operations hangs when one node fail

I have 3 nodes gluster server. Most of mounts from it are readonly and are to localhost like: mount -t glusterfs localhost:/volume /mnt/mountpoint/ -o ro volume is type replicate with 3 replicas (one brick on every node) I've configured for volume…
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Shared and replication filesystem support POSIX

I'm looking for opensource solution that support my use case. I have now 4 node on my cluster network and i need this. Store file system (huge list) Replication my file save on one node and replicate to another one. Shareding my files into 2 parts.…
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Multiple disk sizes for best case parity in gluster

I'm currently stuck with my current situation in creating a Distributed File System. I have 2x 8TB drives 2x 4TB drives 2x 2TB drives 2x 1TB drives I've been looking into glusterfs and it seems the most obvious direction for me to go in is a…
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Why does Puppet (almost) always fail to write to my Gluster filesystem?

I'm using Puppet to manage some files that are shared between servers, by way of the GlusterFS file system. (The specifics shouldn't matter, but in this case things like /etc/httpd/conf.d and /var/www/html are mounted over the network, via…
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Can rsync ignore a directory's atime entry when creating it's file list?

I am using rsync to copy data from a local LVM drive to a locally-mounted glusterfs mount. I'm trying to bring them in to sync and eventually cut over to just using the glusterfs mount. Here is the command that I am using: rsync -av --inplace…
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postfix parameter default_privs

I have set default_privs=myuser in main.cf, which is a perl script, executed in the context of this user. In the perl script I added some debug to print out the user: my $exec_username = $ENV{LOGNAME} || $ENV{USER} ||…
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Configuring Puppet to set up Cinder with GlusterFS

I've spent quite some time now attempting to configure Puppet so that it will setup Cinder to use GlusterFS as the backend, rather than the LVMISCSI backend, but I haven't had any luck. Versions: Puppet 3.7.3 Cinder 1.0.8 Gluster 3.4.2 Ubuntu 14.10…
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glusterfs uid/gid mapping on Debian Wheezy

So I setup a glusterfs volume and it works all fine, but I can't seem to figure out how to mount it with permissions other than root. Supposedly there's options like translate-uid that can be configured for a volume, but that option doesn't appear…
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Does the GlusterFS "client" prefer local LAN nodes over remote LAN nodes?

I am currently having a closer look at GlusterFS. For testing reasons, I set up four virtual machines in total, each of them act as a Gluster peer. Since I have access to two DCs (which are located at different locations), I have created two of the…
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GlusterFS Geo-replication resync

We are using two servers separated by a WAN to replicate approximately 1TB of data. On the master side we have a single server with a Gluster volume exported to a number of other servers that write in data. On the slave side we have a single server…
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install Gluster inside a VM, or set up a VM on top of Gluster?

I'm setting up a high-availability shared-nothing geographically-distributed web server, using multiple A-records for its domain. Right now I'm more concerned with high availability -- "When I unplug any one power cord, every browser can still see…
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NFS on Btrfs on multi-devices .vs. Glusterfs on distributed-volume?

I considering a storage for Email. This storage system run on my own private cloud (already replicated), then i does not care about replication. I'm thinking about 2 options: 1- I will create few "disk" (volume on cloud), and create a Btrfs…
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glusterfs mounts get unmounted when 1 of the 2 bricks goes offline

I have an odd case where 1 of the 2 replicated glusterfs bricks will go offline and take all of the client mounts down with it. As I understand it, this should not be happening. It should fail over to the brick that is still online, but this…
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