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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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Choice of distributed filesystem for intensive reads and writes

I have a series of servers (HP ProLiant, 34 servers) each of which with 500 G of hard drive space. These servers are part of a computational cluster which runs processes that roughly fall into two "phases": phase 1: reading a small number of large…
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How can I repair dir total-size with gluster self-heal

I build a glusterfs cluster, and the type is the Striped Replicated Volumes with 4 servers like that: Volume Name: test-volume Type: Striped-Replicate Volume ID: bdb596e6-a7d2-44a4-8791-1b4fdc57469c Status: Started Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 x 2 =…
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Alternative to GlusterFS

I need to create a redunant 2-linux machines configuration so that the files on server1:/dir are in sync with the files on server2:/dir I managed to configure GlusterFs to do this but while it works pretty fine with large files it works awfully slow…
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GlusterFS unable to add a new peer

I am playing with / testing GlusterFS and I like it so far. I think I can put it to good use. I setup 5 Virtual Machines on a server (this is just for the playing/testing part) and installed Ubuntu 12.04 Server on 4 out of 5 and Debian 64bit on the…
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Umount stale glusterfs partition

I am using glusterfs on several Ubuntu servers: two of them are running glusterfs servers in replication mode. Without any clear error, the glusterfs partition became stale and the system shows this error when I try to access the stale…
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GlusterFS vs Ceph, which is better for production use in 2012?

This is the same question that was asked here, but it's been almost two years since. Meanwhile Ceph has seen constant development (361 kernel commits) and btrfs, in my opinion, is on the verge of production readiness. Both projects' web sites have…
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Howto: Block or File replication across 3+ nodes without a SAN

The setup I admin the backend for a website that currently exists on a single node using Nginx (webserver), Neo4J (database) and Wildfly (app server). The website is getting enough traffic that we are both storage and memory resource limited on the…
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Zero downtime with Kubernetes on top of GlusterFs on top of a ZFS raid - Is this the best solution?

TL;DR A client requests me to make a robust system to run containerized microservices within their LAN. Restriction: They give me 2 machines and 6 data-disks. No more hardware. I have to build "the best I can" here. My worries are the storage and…
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Gluster Performance

currently I try to setup a Gluster cluster and the performance is strange and I'm not sure, if I configured something wron. I'm using 4x Hetzner root server running Debian Buster with Intel i7, 128GB RAM, two NVMe's and one HDD. Every system has a…
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Glusterfs on web server

I want to build a HA Web service and I was planning to use Glusterfs on three nodes (with replica 3). My plan was to install web server directly on Gluster nodes. Is this a viable solution or is there a strong reason to use dedicated Gluster…
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Glusterfs - Clients randomly disconnect until volume is restarted

Ubuntu 18.04 Glusterfs-7.0 I have created a volume for my file share and started it: sudo gluster volume create NAME replica 3 transport tcp host0:/path0 host1:/path1 host2:/path2 sudo gluster volume start NAME Then, added fstab record to my…
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GlusterFS not running on correct port! (peer disconnected / brick not starting)

On CentOS 7 witch two bricks on srv1 and srv2 I've upgraded gluster from 313 to 6 by using yum. I then rebooted server 1, started and mounted the drive successfully. This is my mount command: /usr/sbin/mount.glusterfs 127.0.0.1:/RepVol /home -o…
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Is it possible to recover a previously used brick in the same volume? Is it better to reuse it or clear and add as new?

Was testing how glusterfs behaves after an HDD crash and came to this issue where a previously used but not corrupted brick cannot be added back to a volume because glusterfs thinks it already is part of a volume. I know how to fix it but if such…
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GlusterFS for simple replication of existing dirs on ext4 FS?

I have an already existing CentOS 6.9 system with an already existing EXT4 filesystem (/data) housing our application. Certain directories within this file system contain critical per-transaction xml files that our application creates a lot of (very…
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GlusterFS: Permissions for brick

When setting up a GlusterFS what are the requirements for the brick i.e. the directory on the gluster server in terms of permissions ownership I know that gluster is fully POSIX-compliant but I was wondering how the brick on each server shall be…
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