GlusterFS

Install GlusterFS

GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86-64 server with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

Pre-requisite

bash$ sudo aptitude install sshfs build-essential flex bison byacc vim wget

Now we need to install fuse from source:

bash$ wget http://europe.gluster.org/glusterfs/fuse/fuse-2.7.4glfs11.tar.gz

bash$ tar -zxvf fuse-2.7.4glfs11.tar.gz

bash$ cd fuse-2.7.4glfs11

Next we compile fuse:

bash$ ./configure

bash$ make

bash$ sudo make install

Next we will install GlusterFS:

Get the same exact version, otherwise there is good chances it wont work. I tried with 2.0.0rc1 and 1.3.12 and there was some issues (1.4.0rc7 works fine).

bash$ wget http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/2.0/LATEST/glusterfs-2.0.0rc4.tar.gz

bash$ tar -zxvf glusterfs-2.0.0rc4.tar.gz

bash$ cd glusterfs-2.0.0rc4

Take a minute break and compile:

bash$ ./configure

bash$ make

bash$ sudo make install

For some reasons, libraries are going in the wrong directory so we need to (if someone has a clean fix to this please post it!):

bash$ sudo cp /usr/local/lib/* -R /usr/lib/

Next we create some folders that will be used later on:

bash$ sudo mkdir /mnt/glusterfs

bash$ sudo mkdir /data/

bash$ sudo mkdir /data/export

bash$ sudo mkdir /data/export-ns

bash$ sudo mkdir /etc/glusterfs

bash$ sudo mkdir /var/log/glusterfs

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