[Gluster-users] Newbee Question: GlusterFS on Compute Cluster?

[Adam Tygart]

Pointing the node to mount from itself will certainly work. I used rrdns
because I've seen some race conditions from glusterd being 'started' but
not ready to accept mount requests by the time the netmount service starts.

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Adam


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:14 AM, <elvinas.piliponis at barclays.com> wrote:

> Hello Adam, ****
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> > On my compute cluster we use round-robin dns (for HA of the volume
> definition) and mount the GlusterFS volume via the FUSE (native) client***
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> Can you please be more detailed on this? I have somewhat similar
> copute-storage setup and pointed each compute node to itself as a GlusterFS
> volume server via FUSE mount. Would be there any difference? ****
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> Thank you****
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> *From:* gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:
> gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] *On Behalf Of *Adam Tygart
> *Sent:* 11 May 2013 01:46
> *To:* gluster-users at gluster.org
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> *Subject:* Re: [Gluster-users] Newbee Question: GlusterFS on Compute
> Cluster?****
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> Randy,****
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> On my compute cluster we use round-robin dns (for HA of the volume
> definition) and mount the GlusterFS volume via the FUSE (native) client.
> All of the I/O would go directly to the nodes, rather than through an
> intermediary (NFS) server.****
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> --****
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> Adam Tygart****
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> Beocat Sysadmin****
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> www.beocat.cis.ksu.edu****
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> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Bradley, Randy <
> Randy.Bradley at ars.usda.gov> wrote:****
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> I've got a 24 node compute cluster.  Each node has one extra terabyte
> drive.  It seemed reasonable to install Gluster on each of the compute
> nodes and the head node.  I created a volume from the head node:****
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> gluster volume create gv1 rep 2 transport tcp compute000:/export/brick1
> compute001:/export/brick1 compute002:/export/brick1
> compute003:/export/brick1 compute004:/export/brick1
> compute005:/export/brick1 compute006:/export/brick1
> compute007:/export/brick1 compute008:/export/brick1
> compute009:/export/brick1 compute010:/export/brick1
> compute011:/export/brick1 compute012:/export/brick1
> compute013:/export/brick1 compute014:/export/brick1
> compute015:/export/brick1 compute016:/export/brick1
> compute017:/export/brick1 compute018:/export/brick1
> compute019:/export/brick1 compute020:/export/brick1
> compute021:/export/brick1 compute022:/export/brick1
> compute023:/export/brick1****
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> And then I mounted the volume on the head node.  So far, so good.  Apx. 10
> TB available.****
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> Now I would like each compute node to be able to access files on this
> volume.  Would this be done by NFS mount from the head node to the compute
> nodes or is there a better way?****
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> Thanks,****
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> Randy****
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