GlusterFS
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Fundamentals
GlusterFS is a free and open source scalable filesystem it can be used for cloud storage or to store data in a local network. It can be used to set up an active-active filesystem cluster with failover and loadbalancing via DNS-round robin. Together with CTDB it is possible to build a fileserver for a network with the following advantages:
- Expandable without downtime
- Mount Gluster volumes via the network
- Posix ACL support
- Different configurations possible (depending of your needs)
- Self-healing
- Support of snapshots if LVM2 thinly provisioned is used for the bricks
The different configurations available are:
- Replicated Volume
- Distributed Volume
- Striped Volume
- Replicated-Distributed Volume
- Dispersed Volume
To read more about the different configurations see:
This article is part of CTDB-setup os it just shows how to setup a replicated volume to be used with CTDB.