Install Gluster package on Debian
Download Gluster Debian package from http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/Debian/.
To mount a Gluster Volume (“partition”), you need FUSE:
apt-get install fuse-utils
Setup Gluster daemon in /etc/glusterfs
server4:/etc/glusterfs# cat glusterd.vol
volume management
type mgmt/glusterd
option working-directory /etc/glusterd
option transport-type socket
option transport.socket.keepalive-time 10
option transport.socket.keepalive-interval 2
end-volume
server4:/etc/glusterfs# cat glusterfsd.vol
volume posix
type storage/posix
option directory /data/glusterfs/export
end-volume
volume locks
type features/locks
subvolumes posix
end-volume
volume brick
type performance/io-threads
option thread-count 8
subvolumes locks
end-volume
volume server
type protocol/server
option transport-type tcp/server
# option auth.addr.brick.allow 192.168.0.104
subvolumes brick
end-volume
server4:/etc/glusterfs# cat glusterfs.vol
volume server1
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host server1
option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume
volume server2
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host server2
option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume
volume server3
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host server3
option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume
volume server4
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host server4
option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume
volume distribute
type cluster/distribute
option min-free-disk 5%
subvolumes server1 server2 server3 server4
end-volume
volume writebehind
type performance/write-behind
option cache-size 3MB
option flush-behind on
subvolumes distribute
end-volume
volume cache
type performance/io-cache
option cache-size 512MB
# option priority *.h:3,*.html:2,*:1
subvolumes writebehind
end-volume
server4:/etc/glusterfs# /etc/init.d/glusterd restart
Create Volume on your servers (run from server4 here)
server4:/etc/glusterfs# gluster
gluster> peer probe server1
gluster> peer probe server2
gluster> peer probe server3
gluster> peer status
Number of Peers: 3
Hostname: server3
Uuid: 42d4b4e7-bf18-49ec-b693-eaed111b3ba1
State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
Hostname: server2
Uuid: 37058b64-8439-403d-ab25-b4860a74c781
State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
Hostname: server1
Uuid: d4d3662c-e9f1-4e38-861d-92671d26d81a
State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
gluster> volumee create voltest server1:/voltest server2:/voltest server3:/voltest server4:/voltest
Creation of volume voltest has been successful. Please start the volume to access data.
gluster> volume start voltest
Starting volume voltest has been successful
Mount Volume and access it
server4:/var/log/glusterfs# mount -t glusterfs server4:/voltest /mnt/glusterfs
server4:/var/log/glusterfs# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 30G 1.7G 27G 7% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 564K 9.5M 6% /dev
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 202G 153M 192G 1% /data
server4:/voltest
118G 6.8G 105G 7% /mnt/glusterfs
server4:/var/log/glusterfs# mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sdb1 on /data type ext2 (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
server4:/voltest on /mnt/glusterfs type fuse.glusterfs (rw,allow_other,default_permissions,max_read=131072)