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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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openshift/kubernetes with glusterfs: how to prevent rounding of capacity size?

I am using openshift with glusterfs as storage system. Dynamic provisioning works very well but always rounds the allocated capacity to the next GB value. E.g.: I request a volume of 400MB but a volume of 1GB is created. Is this behavior…
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Docker - Share GlusterFS mount with another container

i have created two docker container. One of them mounts glusterfs to /mnt/storage. Now i want to share the gluster mount/folder with the other container. For this i tried the following docker-compose file: php: image: php-image hostname:…
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Mount dir gets error in GlusterFS storage cluster with SSL/TLS encryption

There is something wrong with my GlusterFS storage cluster using SSL/TLS encryption. I've been trying for several days in many ways. I hope someone could help me. First, I enabled GlusterFS's SSL and restarted glusterd in every peer node. Then,…
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GlusterFS vs NFS vs SAN?

We have SAN storage and we are willing to go with GlusterFS beside it, is that possible Can I use GlusterFS on top of SAN storage? What is GlusterFS? How it is different than NFS? What are the use cases that force me to go with GlusterFS?
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can create glusterfs volume in docker swarm

I have a docker swarm cluster and I'm trying to setup gluster to run in swarm. I installed gluster on all workers and tried to create a gluster volume using this command: #gluster volume create dist-rep-vol gluster1:/bricks/brick1/brick…
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file in gluster can't be removed or healed

I have a gluster mounted to a container and they was some issue with one of gluster's brick so I wasn't able to read or write from that mounted dir. I rebooted my entire gluster cluster (I'm using deplicated replicated setup of 4 nodes) and then I…
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Filer for Google Cloud Computing

I am looking for a filer for my GCE project. It should serve as a shared storage provider for some of my VMs. Of course it should be fail-safe, H/A, high-performance, … ;-) I was reading through…
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OpenStack (Swift) or CEPH deduplication feature? or any deduplication HA storage cluster solutions?

For an owncloud (or nextcloud) project we need to add a great amount of storage, I've been checking all options such as: CEPH, Openstack Swift/Cinder, GlusterFS, SDFS and Tahoe-lafs. With this service we expect many of the same files to be added by…
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LVM Thinpool - How to resize a thinpool LV?

I have the following setup: An LVM volume group over 12 drives on a hardware RAID with one thinpool and one logical volume on a Red Hat Gluster Server. It looks as follows: root@server:pts/1 - [17:33] ~ % pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree …
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Enable Direct I/O mode in GlusterFS

The GlusterFS server will ignore the O_DIRECT flag by default, how to make the server work in direct-io mode? By mount -t glusterfs XXX:/testvol -o direct-io-mode=enable mountpoint, the GlusterFS client will work in direct-io mode, but the file…
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Glusterfs can not quota on non-existing directory

I am using glusterfs 3.7.6. The Gluster Documentation says, Note You can set the disk limit on the directory even if it is not created. The disk limit is enforced immediately after creating that directory. But, when I try to quota on…
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glusterfs snapshot creation error

I want to create a snapshot from glusterfs volume the below command was written in glusterfs website #snapshot create [description ] [force] snapshot create s gv0 but the below error occurred: snapshot: command…
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Glusterfs installation done but unable to start services on second node

I am installing glusterfs filesystem on ubuntu and linux 6, trying to connect these two servers as peer in volume. I successfully installed it on both servers, but due to some replication issues I stopped glusterfs service on the linux 6 server.…
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Gluster strange issue with shared mount point like seprate mount.

I have two nodes and for experiment i have install glusterfs and create volume and successfully mounted on own node, but if i create file in node1 it is not showing in node2, look like both behaving like they are separate.…
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Kubernates with Glusterfs not working as Expected

I am working on Deploying laravel application on Kubernetes which is connected by glusterfs to storage this is my structure enter image description here every pod has the application inside it, the storage folder in Laravel Application has been…
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