GlusterFS is a scale-out NAS file system that runs over Ethernet or Infiniband RDMA interconnect. GlusterFS is now owned by Red Hat.
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installing glusterfs on amazon ec2
My drupal website running on Amazon EC2 cloud. My instances use S3 stroge for dynamic files.
But I realized that S3 is too slow and it may cause problems.
I want to use glusterfs instead of S3.
To ...
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ec2 instance cant mount glusterfs server
My EC2 instance tries to mount glusterfs volume whic located on another EC2 instance .
client instance's /etc/fstab file contains:
glusterserver1:/export/brick1 /mnt/glusterfs glusterfs defaults 0 ...
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glusterfs configuration files and chef
Seems impossible to find any info on configuration files for Gluster's most recent version (3.2.x). I'd like to use configuration files as opposed to the CLI because I'd like to automate ...
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What exactly does Gluster do?
I've been playing with gluster for the last 2 days and been asking questions here and on their questions system.
I really don't understand some of the stuff. I see people saying stuff like
Set up ...
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Client install glusterfs 3.2.5 doesn't work with server install glusterfs 3.0.2
I have 4 servers running glusterfs (3 servers and 1 client)
4 servers are installed ubuntu 10.04 LTS and glusterfs 3.0.2. But yesterday I upgraded OS client from ubuntu 10.04.04LTS to 12.04LTS and ...
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Trying to add more mirror servers
I currently have 2 vps running on the same provider and they serve web files.
server1.example.com
server2.example.com
I used glusterFS to create a file Replication system between 2 nodes. ( server1 ...
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GlusterFS Mount Keeps Disconnecting Randomly
We are using GlusterFS to provide a distributed file system on 2 web servers which use a shared media directory and cache. So i have created 2 gluster volumes (media and var) and have mounted these in ...
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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. ...
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Are ZFS clustered filesystems possible?
Is it possible to create a ZFS cluster? Or would you need to go the seemingly ugly (to me at least) route of ZFS with UFS formatted pools governed by GlusterFS?
The idea is to see if it is possible ...
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Can I use an Amazon Load Balancer in front of multiple GlusterFS EC2 instances?
I'm encountering an interesting problem with setting up a High-Availability file system cluster on EC2. The idea behind the setup is simple: 2 GlusterFS nodes are in two separate availability zones ...
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GlusterFs - high load 90-107% CPU
I try and try and try to performance and fix problem with gluster, i try all. I served on gluster webpages, php files, images etc. I have problem after update from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1. I try 3.4 when i ...
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GlusterFS and Hardware? [duplicate]
I was reading glusterfs documentation and was unable to find information about how to design the hardware platforme to match one's need.
The thing is that you can build your system on top of commodity ...
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Getting autofs to mount a gluster NFS volume
I've got a glusterfs 3.3.0 replicated volume running on two Ubuntu 10.04 servers, and each mounts the volume via NFS (3). Mounting manually works fine using this command:
mount -t nfs -o ...
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Amazon AutoScaling and GlusterFS
I have setup Elastic load balancing with 5 EC2 instance registered with the load balancer. To our website users upload their data(images), we store these images in network attached storage (NAS). We ...
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Certain operations like 'ls' hang in 4-node gluster setup
I have a 4-node gluster setup with replication set to 2. The 'ls' command hangs on the Gluster mount that I have created. The other operations such as creating a file or reading a file work fine.
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failed to fetch volume file
When my client try to connect gluster server it gives below error:
[glusterfsd-mgmt.c:1627:mgmt_getspec_cbk] 0-mgmt: failed to fetch volume file (key:gluster_vol_0)
My client is an Amazon Linux ...
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How can I manage the /etc/glusterd directory on Ubuntu diskless booting nodes?
I've setup several cluster nodes that boots from a main server (Ubuntu 12.04 diskless boot). Thus they share the same /etc/ folder.
Now I want to configure gluster to combine the physical disks of ...
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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
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Gluster: What's a Brick vs a Node
I'm having a small problem understanding Gluster Bricks and Nodes. In particular, on the 3.3.0 Administration Guide, eg, page 12 - 13, the discussion on "Striped Volumes" vs "Distributed Striped ...
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Distributed storage [closed]
At my University Department we are about to upgrade the computers of our student lab (about 25-30 machines). The machines will be running Linux.
One thing about the new machines is that they have ...
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How to monitor glusterfs volumes
Glusterfs, while being a nice distributed filesystem, provides almost no way to monitor it's integrity. Servers can come and go, bricks might get stale or fail and I afraid to know about that when it ...
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Can I run mysqld on top of glusterfs?
I have been playing with glusterfs recently.
What I want to try is to run mysqld on top of the glusterfs in a similar way as it is possible to run MySQL on top of DRBD.
I am familiar with MySQL ...
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connection lost to glustferfs when amazon ec2 internal ip address changes
My web site running on EC2 instances. Web servers stores dynamic data in glusterfs servers. When the glusterfs instances are restarted, their ip addresses changes, so that web servers lost 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 ...
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NAS Performance: NFS vs Samba vs GlusterFS
I am planning my new shared storage infrastructure for a small webserver farm. Therefore i ran a lot of tests with a lot of NAS filesystems. By doing so, i got some unexpected results and would like ...
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how to automount glusterfs file system on ubuntu
I'm I created a fstab entry for glusterfs volume like below:
glusterserver1:gluster_vol_0 /var/www/sites/default/files glusterfs defaults,_netdev 0 0
when run this command
mount -a
i can see ...
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Unable to connect to GlusterFS
I have created a Gluster containing two servers with relocation enabled between both.
Then a gluster share is created and tried to mount from a third server. It was successful. Then created a second ...
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insalling glusterfs client on Amazon Linux AMI
I created glusterfs instances using Ubuntu TLS AMI. I want my existing instances (Amazon Linux AMI) connect to glusterfs servers.
There is no Amazon Linux folder at the glusterfs's download page:
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defining EBS volume size to use with glusterfs
I'm trying to build a glusterfs network file system on Amazon EC2.
I trying to define EBS Volume size. I'm planning to use 2 x 12Gb volumes at the begining stage and then add extra volumes in the ...
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How to configure GlusterFS for a low-latency read, async write setup with a volatile number of nodes?
I need a storage system with the following requirements:
Dynamic pool of Linux EC2 application servers (1-20) that autoscale daily
Low latency reads
Possibly async writes (<5 minutes)
Most posix ...
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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 ...
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How many Gluster Volumes is allowed in single server
I have created one Gluster Volume
sudo gluster volume create devshare transport tcp server1:/mnt/test
GFS1 in server1 and able to mount the share on server2
sudo mount -t glusterfs ...
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Avoiding SPOFS with GlusterFS and Windows
We have a GlusterFS cluster we use for our processing function. We want to get Windows integrated into it, but are having some trouble figuring out how to avoid the single-point-of-failure that is a ...
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Import Xen Server VHD
I am trialing using a distributed file system as the backend storage for my Xen Servers.
I have set up the DFS (distributed file system) (using CentOS and GlusterFS) and everything is working ...
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Owner/Group issue on Mirror server
I am running Gluster-FS with a High-Availability Storage setup.
Both client and server nodes have NginX running to serve same files.
main.mysite.com
mirror1.mysite.com
..etc..
The problem is that ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 glusterfs volume failed to mount at boot time
I have just setup 7 KVM guests, all running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit Minimal server to test out glusterfs 3.2.5 from the Ubuntu official repo. Two of them form a mirrored pair (i.e. replica 2), and five ...
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Searching a file by inode of GFID hardlink
I use 'Distributed Replicated Volume' on Glusterfs 3.3.1 and of course I run into split-brain issue. To solve it, I run 'heal' procedure and then I monitor the result with:
gluster volume heal ...
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glusterfs to replicate files to other servers
I've got multiple servers which all need to have the same content in /home. In other words, if the file /home/user1/test.txt is updated on server A, this needs to be replicated to all other servers in ...
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Should I disable Software-RAID if I already have a redundant copy
My hosting provider preconfigures the servers I rent with RAID-1. However, for redundancy, I am planning to have another copy of the data on another server using GlusterFS.
Can I disable the RAID-1 ...
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Gluster bricks are offline and errors in logs
I have substituted all the IP addresses with hostnames and renamed configs (IP to hostname) in /var/lib/glusterd by my shell script. After that I restarted Gluster Daemon and the volume. Then I ...
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Gluster volume create -> host not a friend
If I use IPs to create Gluster volume, it works well, but when I use hostnames, it says:
Host glustertest1 not a friend
glustertest1 is Route 53 name which resolves to EC2 Instance private address.
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Mounting Replicated Gluster Multi-AZ Storage
I have Replicated Gluster Storage which is used by Auto scaling Servers. Both, Auto scaling and Storage are allocated in two Availability zones.
Gluster:
Number of Bricks: 4 x 2 = 8
Transport-type: ...
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Experience with MooseFS? [closed]
Anyone have any experience using MooseFS? I want an easy distributed storage platform to store static data archive of about 10 TB and serve it to 20-40 nodes. Also I want to be able to add storage ...
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Strange processes on Server consume CPU
I have noticed 15% CPU load on the Server which is currently offline. It has mounted GlusterFS volume over TCP. Looking through the top, it shown me it's glusterfs. After that I tried to figure what ...
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XenServer Offsite Replication
I am trying to find the best way to migrate my VHD's to my DataCenter offsite for DR purposes.
Currently I have a number of Xen Stacks setup as the following:
Dual RAID ISCSI SAN multipathed to at ...
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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 ...
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Can you create a glusterfs with existing data in a directory?
I'm looking into convert a single server/comp into the start of a glusterfs distributed system. I already have a directory mounted on this server of 24TB RAID. I want to use this initial computer to ...
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Configure 2 servers in a redundant fashion (with gluster)
I have server1 and server2 with the same /path on both.
I would like to configure glusterfs so what I write on server1:/path to be available on server2:/path and viceversa and in the same time if ...
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Budget High Availability configuration for Linux (Debian) boxes [closed]
I try to set up a (pretty) high availability solution for a service that I run on Linux machines and here's what I come up with:
- one front end server used for balancing. IT should have haproxy ...
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Percona XtraDB Cluster with GlusterFS
We are deploying a GlusterFS cluster with 4 nodes, and we want to deploy the Percona XtraDB Cluster on top of it with 4 nodes, each node will have a mounted folder from the GlusterFS, each mount will ...
