Quick start with GlusterFS

The software that www.gluster.org makes allows to have distributed file systems with commodity hardware.

Rpm
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http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/CentOS/glusterfs-fuse-3.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/CentOS/glusterfs-core-3.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/CentOS/glusterfs-rdma-3.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm


Gluster Daemon
==============

/etc/init.d/glusterd start


Firewall
========

iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 24007:24008 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 24009:24014 -j ACCEPT


Bricks
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gluster peer probe SERVER_NAME_OR_IP


Volumes
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    Creation
    ========
    # replicated (mirror onto 2 hosts)
    gluster volume create test-volume replica 2 transport tcp server1:/exp1 server2:/exp2

    Start
    =====
    gluster volume start test-volume

    List
    ====
    gluster volume info (all|vol_name)

    Mount
    =====
    mount -t glusterfs HOSTNAME-OR-IPADDRESS:/VOLNAME MOUNTDIR