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I have just finished my first steps with glusterfs. Realizing in principle what I wanted to do (including installation from source) was astonishingly easy; however, the performance is extremely poor. Thus, I'd appreciate comments and suggestions what to do/try next. * Operating system is Ubuntu 8.04.1 (32bit on servers, 64bit on client) * glusterfs is 1.3.12; compiled from source; *

Hi - I already have an NFS server in production which shares Web data for a 4-node Apache cluster. I'd like to switch to GlusterFS. Do I have to copy the files from the NFS storage to a GlusterFS one, or may it work if I just install GlusterFS on that server, configuring a GFS volume to the existing storage directory (assuming, of course, the NFS server is shuuted down and not used

I was wondering if anyone would be able to shed some light on how a file could end up with inconsistent md5sums on Gluster backend storage. Our configuration is running on Gluster v3.1.5 in a distribute-replicate setup consisting of 8 bricks. Our OS is Red Hat 5.6 x86_64. Backend storage is an ext3 RAID 5. The 8 bricks are in RR DNS and are mounted for reading/writing via NFS automounts.

I am seeing extremely slow performance with glusterfs. OS: CentOS 5 glusterfs version: glusterfs-1.3.9-1 Server configuration: ############################################## ### GlusterFS Server Volume Specification ## ############################################## #### CONFIG FILE RULES: ### "#" is comment character. ### - Config file is case sensitive ### - Options within a