[Gluster-users] Newbee Question: GlusterFS on Compute Cluster?
Adam Tygart
mozes at k-state.edu
Fri May 10 22:45:31 UTC 2013
Randy,
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.
--
Adam Tygart
Beocat Sysadmin
www.beocat.cis.ksu.edu
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Bradley, Randy
<Randy.Bradley at ars.usda.gov>wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> 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
>
> And then I mounted the volume on the head node. So far, so good. Apx.
> 10 TB available.
>
> 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?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Randy
>
>
>
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