Comments on Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS 3.0.x On Debian Squeeze
This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Debian Squeeze. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. 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 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.
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Can you please comment on your performance findings compared to just using a NFS export?
I would also appreciate your views on the benefits of using GlusterFS compared to using NFS. Examples of benefits would be best if you could.
Thanks for all your work in providing HowTos. I read them as soon as I notice them.
Serge