One of the positive outcomes of the community contest
(http://gluster.org/contest/ ->ends tomorrow!) is a series of helpful HOWTO
articles designed for those looking to tune GlusterFS for better performance, or
for those looking to get up to speed faster on how to use.
These articles and posts originated on http://community.gluster.org/ -
To see the entire list of articles - http://www.gluster.com/tag/thestraighttech/
Here are the individual articles:
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TheStraightTech: Mount GlusterFS at Boot Time on
Ubuntu<http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/28/thestraighttech-mount-glusterfs-at-boot-time/>
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Some Ubuntu users have reported errors mounting GlusterFS volumes at boot time
due to the order that the Upstart system init daemon starts services. Gluster
community member Semiosis<http://community.gluster.org/u/semiosis/> posted
a
solution<http://community.gluster.org/p/howto-mount-glusterfs-volumes-on-servers-at-boot-time-ubuntu/>
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TheStraightTech: Targeted Self-heal (repairing less than the whole
volume)<http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/27/thestraighttech-targeted-self-heal-repairing-less-than-the-whole-volume/>
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
There are a variety of strategies one can employ to improve the performance of
GlusterFS self-heal procedures. Gluster community member
Semiosis<http://community.gluster.org/u/semiosis/> weighs in with one he
dubs targeted
self-heal<http://community.gluster.org/p/howto-targeted-self-heal-repairing-less-than-the-whole-volume/>
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TheStraightTech: How are Distribution and Replication
Related?<http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/27/thestraighttech-how-are-distribution-and-replication-related/>
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
If you use GlusterFS, you know that there are several types of volumes you can
create. If you?ve ever wondered what the difference between replicated and
distributed volumes is in GlusterFS, or how they?re related, you?ll like this
recent
post<http://community.gluster.org/p/how-are-distribution-and-replication-related/>
by Jeff Darcy<http://pl.atyp.us/>, HekaFS<http://cloudfs.org/>
creator
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TheStraightTech: GlusterFS Over NFS, Virtual IP Migration, and
Replication<http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/26/thestraighttech-glusterfs-over-nfs-virtual-ip-migration-and-replication/>
Monday, September 26th, 2011
Community linchpin Jjulian<http://community.gluster.org/u/joejulian/> has
posted a helpful HOWTO on How GlusterFS NFS works when migrating a virtual IP in
a replicated
volume<http://community.gluster.org/p/how-glusterfs-nfs-works-when-migrating-a-virtual-ip-in-a-replicated-volume/>
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GlusterFS HOWTO: NFS Performance with FUSE Client
Redundancy<http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/14/glusterfs-howto-nfs-performance-with-fuse-client-redundancy/>
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
There?s another great post on the community Q&A
site<http://community.gluster.org/> ? this one about NFS
performance<http://community.gluster.org/p/nfs-performance-with-fuse-client-redundancy/>,
excessive load times for PHP-based web sites, and the Fuse client. This was
written by Joe
Julian<http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/User:Jjulian>,
our resident IRC chairman and all-around Gluster soup stirrer
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Linux Kernel Tuning for
GlusterFS<http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/14/linux-kernel-tuning-for-glusterfs/>
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
One of our support engineer gurus, Harsha, has published a very detailed post on
tuning parameters for the Linux kernel that may impact your GlusterFS
performance. Here?s his introduction
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