Comments on High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS On Debian Lenny - Automatic File Replication Across Two Storage Servers

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Debian Lenny) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Debian Lenny as well) 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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By: admin
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For Debian Lenny (that's what this tutorial was written for), this tutorial is perfectly fine because Lenny comes (came) with old GlusterFS packages (which at that time weren't old).

You can use the search function, and you'll find newer tutorials for Debian Squeeze, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 12.04.

By: Joe Julian
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Please do not follow this tutorial.

This is many revisions old and is no longer valid with current versions of GlusterFS.

The actual GlusterFS documentation has a reasonable step-by-step instructions on setting up a volume.