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GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients.

GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes (actually, 72 brontobytes!) and handling thousands of clients. GlusterFS clusters together storage building blocks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect, aggregating disk and memory resources and managing data in a single global namespace. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design and can deliver exceptional performance for diverse workloads.

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Can I change GlusterFS replica 3 to replica 3 with arbiter 1?

I configured a volume as a replica 3 and now I want to convert it to a replica 3 with arbiter 1. I cannot seem to locate any information on if this is possible or if I need to move my data, destroy the volume and recreate it. I am running glusterfs…
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Persisting data in a docker swarm with glusterfs

I have a docker swarm with a lot of containers, but in particolar: mysql mongodb fluentd elasticsearch My problem is that when a node fails, the manager discards the current container and creates a new one in another node. So everytime i lost the…
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How to disable the page cache in linux kernel?

how to avoid page cache in kernel,the application can directly write or read data from disk?In kernel,how to set?
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Shared storage FS (GFS2, GlusterFS, ?) comparison and test

Problem description: For our application (RHEL 5,6) we use shared storage (EVA) and need to find OCFS2 replacement (not supported on RHEL 6) for several FS shared between nodes (2-7). Current tips are GFS2 and GlusterFS. Usage: System receives…
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What's the best way of letting people upload files in an AWS load balanced environment?

Let's say you have instance1, instance2, and instance3 running in AWS. They are all running Apache, and the web application that you run needs to allow users to upload images which is the case in many projects. Also when you are showing the image…
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glusterfs heketi use partition instead raw device to permit easy extension

I have create a gluster cluster to provisioning disk to kubernetes, but my question is focused on the heketi and gluster. we run the cluster in a virtual environment so the disk presented to the VMs could be expanded due they are virtual disk. We…
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gluster peer probe failed: is either already part of another cluster or having volumes configured

I have 2 gluster clusters of type distributed-replicated: Cluster 1 (C1): with bricks in machines M1 and M2. Cluster 2 (C2): with bricks in machines M3 and M4. I want to expand C1 by adding M4 (already part of C2) and another machine M5. For adding…
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Extend GlusterFS on top of LVM

I need to add more space to one of our gluster volumes. The volumes are replica 2 and sit on top of an LVM. The file system is XFS. The current size is 4TB and I want to resize to 6TB. The LVM has enough Free PEs on both replica servers. ---…
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How to change GlusterFS replica 2 to replica 3 with arbiter 1?

GlusterFS 3.7 introduced arbiter volume which it is a 3-way replication where the third brick is the arbiter. How does one change from 2-way replication to 3-way replication with arbiter? I could not find any documentation of changing running…
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Performance of MongoDB using GlusterFS

We have several disk arrays that are shared in a distributed file system across multiple servers using GlusterFS. It works really well. The problem is, we have no available storage that is not appropriated to the distributed file system. As a…
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gluster performance for many files

Just wondering if this performance is normal. I'm rsyncing a dir (about 20 gb of images) into a gluster volume (3 nodes, 3 replicas, each node in the same digitalocean data center). rsync --info=progress2 -r /var/www/app/_appdata/ /mnt …
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Glusterfs: mixing brick sizes

What happens when you mix brick sizes in Glusterfs? I found this answer, but unfortunately I do not see any answer. http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users.old/2013-January/012354.html In this case, I am talking about adding a replica with…
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docker --volumes-from not mounting any files

I have two containers that in one of them I am using gluster file system to mount the files that I need into mnt directory of my container and I'm using VOLUME /mnt in my Dockerfile to share the volume. I run this container with this: docker run -d…
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Glusterfs in a container or in the host machine?

I have a virtual machine running an application which uses 4 Docker containers (also inside the virtual machine). I need these containers to share their files in a shared filesystem so I thought about Glusterfs. Now my question is: Where should I…
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Glusterfs Gett Attribute IOPS Caching

I'm building a GlusterFS share for a heavy Get Attribute workload. This cluster is configured in "Replicated fashion" and needs to host several TB of data. In this scenario the largest part of request from clients is of type "Get Attribute" ( eg.…
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