In this tutorial I will show you how to install GlusterFS in a scalable
way to create a storage cluster, starting with 2 servers on Ubuntu 8.04
LTS server. Files will be replicated and splitted accross all servers
which is some sort of RAID 10 (raid 1 with < 4 servers). With 4
servers that have each 100GB hard drive, total storage will be 200GB
and if one server fails, the data will still be intact and files on the
failed server will be replicated on another working server. 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.
Mar
21
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