Comments on: Glusterfs Distributed File System on Amazon EC2

By: Joe Julian

Joe Julian — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:50:20 +0000

With 3.1.x you don't configure vol files anymore:

brick1.my.domain# gluster peer probe brick2.my.domain
brick2.my.domain# gluster peer probe brick1.my.domain # This is to ensure that brick1 is being referenced by name
brick1.my.domain# gluster volume create web_sites replica 2 brick1.my.domain:/gfs/web/sites/export brick2.my.domain:/gfs/web/sites/export

By: Donald

Donald — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:30:43 +0000

We're also trying to get Gluster running in ec2 for a project as well, but having awful problems with zip/unzip performance. I was wondering if you have seen anything like this? We've talked to Gluster support, but they appear to be washing their hands of it now….

By: Yashh

Yashh — Sun, 30 May 2010 02:25:42 +0000

Thanks Ian for the post. I have been using glusterFS on ec2 for a while. It worked great for us except that it leaked memory and reached the RAM limit and started swapping. Every 2-3 days i had to kill and restart it. I used gluster 2.0.2. I had no idea gluster current version reached 3.0. Just upgraded our servers. Things look smooth but need to monitor over the next 2-3 days.

By: Ian Rogers

Ian Rogers — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:31:40 +0000

Glusterfs can do most things it seems so you shouldn't have a problem….

What do you mean by "B to A cross replication"?

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:32:30 +0000

Interesting write up. I just started hosting and have been monitoring the Gluster project here and there. My only problem with the FS right now is that there is no B to A cross replication. Hopefully that'll change soon. Thanks for the info though.