Filesystems: Gluster - Revision history

Jon: /* Install Gluster */

2013-02-17T17:52:07Z

Install Gluster

2012-07-12T17:02:09Z

2012-07-12T16:45:20Z

Mount the gluster filesystem

2012-07-12T16:45:08Z

Mount the gluster filesystem

2012-07-12T16:44:20Z

2012-07-12T16:40:27Z

2012-07-12T16:18:31Z

Start the volume

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2012-07-12T15:52:09Z

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 === Install Gluster ===
 <syntaxhighlight>
-  apt-get -y install gluster-server gluster-client
+ apt-get -y install glusterfs-server glusterfs-client
 </syntaxhighlight>

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 * Both hosts then mount the glusterfs
 * Mount point /gluster is a loopback device to a file created with dd (had problems when path was not a dedicated mount)
 === Install Gluster ===
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    apt-get -y install gluster-server gluster-client
 </syntaxhighlight>
 === Create a storage pool ===
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 </syntaxhighlight>
 === Mount the gluster filesystem ===
 * Using gluster native client below, can also use cifs/nfs.

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 * '''Note:''' The server specified in the mount command is only used to fetch the gluster configuration volfile describing the volume name. Subsequently, the client will communicate directly with the servers mentioned in the volfile (which might not even include the one used for mount).
 <syntaxhighlight>
-root@cal3:~$  mount -t glusterfs cal4:/gluster-vol1 /mnt/gluster
+root@cal3:~$ mount -t glusterfs cal4:/gluster-vol1 /mnt/gluster
 root@cal3:~$ df -h
 Filesystem          Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

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 none                2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /run/shm
 /dev/sda1           228M  6.6M  209M   4% /boot
-/dev/loop0           20G  423M   19G   3% /glusterfs
+/dev/loop0           20G  423M   19G   3% /glusterfs    # <-- this is the individual file system on each node
-cal4:/gluster-vol1   39G  845M   37G   3% /mnt/gluster
+cal4:/gluster-vol1   39G  845M   37G   3% /mnt/gluster  # <-- this is the aggregated gluster system 2x20GB
 </syntaxhighlight>

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 * A gluster filesystem is created across 2 hosts
 * Both hosts then mount the glusterfs
-* Mount point /gluster is a device (/dev/sda6)
+* Mount point /gluster is a loopback device to a file created with dd (had problems when path was not a dedicated mount)
 === Install Gluster ===
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 Brick1: cal4:/glusterfs
 Brick2: cal3:/glusterfs
 </syntaxhighlight>

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 === Start the volume ===
 <syntaxhighlight>
 root@cal4:~$ gluster volume start gluster-vol1
 Starting volume gluster-vol1 has been successful
 </syntaxhighlight>