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All, We are in the process of determining a virtualized infrastructure and wanted to hear from current users of Gluster and VMWare. What we were looking to setup was an HA ESXi cluster (2 heads) with gluster backend (4 bricks to start, replicated/distributed), all backend connectivity would be 10Gbe. Mainly the storage would be for VM images but may include NAS files later. So our

Hi all! What's the best way to stop the CLIENT process for Gluster? We have dual systems, where the Gluster servers also act as clients, so both, glusterd and glusterfsd are running on the system. Stopping the server app. works via "/etc/init.d/glusterd stop" but the client is stopped how? I need to unmount the filesystem from the server in order to do a fsck on the ext4 volume;

Hi all, I'm very happy to see the release of 3.3.0. One of the features I was waiting for are striped replicated volumes. We plan to store KVM images (from a OpenStack installation) on it. I read through the docs and found the following phrase: "In this release, configuration of this volume type is supported only for Map Reduce workloads." What does that mean exactly? Hopefully not,

Hi, Has anyone even seen this before - an NFS mount through Gluster that gets the filesystem size wrong and is otherwise garbled and dangerous? Is there a way within Gluster to fix it, or is the lesson that Gluster's NFS sometimes can't be relied on? What have the experiences been running an external NFS daemon with Gluster? Is that fairly straightforward? Might like to get the

I'm trying to justify a GlusterFS storage system for my technology development group and I want to get some clarification on something that I can't seem to figure out architecture wise... My storage system will be rather large. Significant fraction of a petabyte and will require scaling in size for at least one decade. from what I understand GlusterFS achieves redundancy through

hi! http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.2/3.2.1/Ubuntu/glusterfs_3.2.1-1_amd64.deb Which version of Ubuntu was it built for? Maybe it can be used for any version of it? Are the build script available for download? Thank you, tamas

Howdy, With 3.1.3 the option was added to disable the builtin Gluster NFS. Does that mean that the following scenario should work: 1. Disable Gluster NFS "gluster volume set <VOLUME> nfs.disable on" 2. Restart the gluster servers for good measure 3. On one of the gluster servers, mount the volume using the gluster fuse client: mkdir /export/users # In /etc/fstab add

If you haven't seen it already, GlusterFS 3.1.5 is now available at http://www.gluster.org/download/ For those of you currently on the 3.1.x series, we recommend that you upgrade to this latest release. Here are some issues fixed in this release: Bug 2294: Fixed the issue occurred during creating and sharing of volumes with both RDMA and TCP/IP transport type. Bug 2522: Fixed the issue of

I have the following appended to gluster logs at around 100kB of logs per second, on all 10 gluster servers: [2012-06-11 15:08:15.729429] I [dht-layout.c:682:dht_layout_dir_mismatch] 0-sites-dht: subvol: sites-client-41; inode layout - 966367638 - 1002159031; disk layout - 930576244 - 966367637 [2012-06-11 15:08:15.729465] I [dht-common.c:525:dht_revalidate_cbk] 0-sites-dht: mismatching layouts

Hi, we have 4 test machines (gluster01 to gluster04). I've created a replicated volume with the 4 machines. Then on the client machine i've executed: mount -t glusterfs gluster01:/volume01 /mnt/gluster And everything works ok. The main problem occurs in every client machine that I do: umount /mnt/gluster and the mount -t glusterfs gluster01:/volume01 /mnt/gluster The client

"May you live in interesting times" Is this a curse or a blessing? :) I've just tested a 3.1.5 GlusterFS native client against a 3.1.3 storage pool using this volume: Volume Name: pfs-rw1 Type: Distributed-Replicate Status: Started Number of Bricks: 2 x 2 = 4 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: jc1letgfs16-pfs1:/export/read-write/g01 Brick2: jc1letgfs13-pfs1:/export/read-write/g01

I was wondering about general stability of glusterfs on 32 bit x86 Linux. I have it running without problems on some lightly used 32 bit systems, but this scares me a bit if I decided to use it in production[1]: While the 3.x versions of Gluster will compile on 32bit systems we do not QA or test on 32-bit systems. We strongly suggest you do NOT run Gluster in a 32-bit environment. I was

Can someone tell me what concept I''m missing here. The setup is simple. I have two default routes after ifup operations. I use "ip route del" to remove one, but then decide to add it back. The attempt is refused. Why? # ip route ls 66.95.83.208/28 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 66.95.83.210 65.84.205.96/27 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src 65.84.205.104

Hi... Started playing with gluster. And the heal functions is my "target" for testing. Short description of my test ---------------------------- * 4 replicas on single machine * glusterfs mounted locally * Create file on glusterfs-mounted directory: date >data.txt * Append to file on one of the bricks: hostname >>data.txt * Trigger a self-heal with: stat data.txt =>

Hi, We've got a fresh CentOS 5.4 box, and the only glitch so far is that /etc/init.d/smb doesn't start smbd. It claims it does - shows "[ok]" - but only nmbd ends up running. Even setting a higher debugging level in the smbd flags, nothing logs or shows on the console as to why smbd is immediatly quitting. To make it stranger, doing this works fine: . /etc/init.d/functions

I ran the same dd tests from KnowYourNFSAlpha-1.pdf and performance is inconsistent and causes the server to become unresponsive. My server freezes every time when I run the following command: dd if=/dev/zero of=garb bs=256k count=64000 I would also like to mount a path like: /volume/some/random/dir # mount host:/gluster/tmp /mnt/test mount: host:/gluster/tmp failed, reason given by server: No

Hi all, Is it possible to use a nfs share to serve as a glusterfs server process?? For example: I have a host that mounts a nfs share from a solaris server under /mnt. Can I use this /mnt directory for a glusterfs server?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Is there a way internal to a KVM VM to know which host it's running on? It could send a command via ssh to virsh on a host, and learn from that whether the host currently has it running. But is there something within the VM itself which will reveal this? Thanks, Whit

Suppose I start building nodes with (say) 24 drives each in them. Would the standard/recommended approach be to make each drive its own filesystem, and export 24 separate bricks, server1:/data1 .. server1:/data24 ? Making a distributed replicated volume between this and another server would then have to list all 48 drives individually. At the other extreme, I could put all 24 drives into some

Hi, everyone. Its nice meeting you. I am poor at English.... I am writing this because I'd like to update GlusterFS to 3.2.2-1,and I want to change from gluster mount to nfs mount. I have installed GlusterFS 3.2.1 one week ago,and replication 2 server. OS:CentOS5.5 64bit RPM:glusterfs-core-3.2.1-1 glusterfs-fuse-3.2.1-1 command gluster volume create syncdata replica 2 transport tcp