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 <[email protected]>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 > > > > > This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely > for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message > or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law > and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you > have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete > the email immediately. > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
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