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A copy of the license is -included in the chapter entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Top, Next: Acknowledgements, Up: (dir) - -GlusterFS 2.0 User Guide -************************ - -This is the user manual for GlusterFS 2.0. - - Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Gluster, Inc. Permission is granted to -copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU -Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published -by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no -Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is -included in the chapter entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". - -* Menu: - -* Acknowledgements:: -* Introduction:: -* Installation and Invocation:: -* Concepts:: -* Translators:: -* Usage Scenarios:: -* Troubleshooting:: -* GNU Free Documentation Licence:: -* Index:: - - --- The Detailed Node Listing --- - -Installation and Invocation - -* Pre requisites:: -* Getting GlusterFS:: -* Building:: -* Running GlusterFS:: -* A Tutorial Introduction:: - -Running GlusterFS - -* Server:: -* Client:: - -Concepts - -* Filesystems in Userspace:: -* Translator:: -* Volume specification file:: - -Translators - -* Storage Translators:: -* Client and Server Translators:: -* Clustering Translators:: -* Performance Translators:: -* Features Translators:: - -Storage Translators - -* POSIX:: - -Client and Server Translators - -* Transport modules:: -* Client protocol:: -* Server protocol:: - -Clustering Translators - -* Unify:: -* Replicate:: -* Stripe:: - -Performance Translators - -* Read Ahead:: -* Write Behind:: -* IO Threads:: -* IO Cache:: - -Features Translators - -* POSIX Locks:: -* Fixed ID:: - -Miscellaneous Translators - -* ROT-13:: -* Trace:: - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Acknowledgements, Next: Introduction, Prev: Top, Up: Top - -Acknowledgements -**************** - -GlusterFS continues to be a wonderful and enriching experience for all -of us involved. - - GlusterFS development would not have been possible at this pace if -not for our enthusiastic users. People from around the world have -helped us with bug reports, performance numbers, and feature -suggestions. A huge thanks to them all. - - Matthew Paine - for RPMs & general enthu - - Leonardo Rodrigues de Mello - for DEBs - - Julian Perez & Adam D'Auria - for multi-server tutorial - - Paul England - for HA spec - - Brent Nelson - for many bug reports - - Jacques Mattheij - for Europe mirror. - - Patrick Negri - for TCP non-blocking connect. - http://gluster.org/core-team.php (<list-hacking@gluster.com>) - Gluster - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Introduction, Next: Installation and Invocation, Prev: Acknowledgements, Up: Top - -1 Introduction -************** - -GlusterFS is a distributed filesystem. It works at the file level, not -block level. - - A network filesystem is one which allows us to access remote files. A -distributed filesystem is one that stores data on multiple machines and -makes them all appear to be a part of the same filesystem. - - Need for distributed filesystems - - * Scalability: A distributed filesystem allows us to store more data - than what can be stored on a single machine. - - * Redundancy: We might want to replicate crucial data on to several - machines. - - * Uniform access: One can mount a remote volume (for example your - home directory) from any machine and access the same data. - -1.1 Contacting us -================= - -You can reach us through the mailing list *gluster-devel* -(<gluster-devel@nongnu.org>). - - You can also find many of the developers on IRC, on the `#gluster' -channel on Freenode (<irc.freenode.net>). - - The GlusterFS documentation wiki is also useful: -<http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS> - - For commercial support, you can contact Gluster at: - - 3194 Winding Vista Common - Fremont, CA 94539 - USA. - - Phone: +1 (510) 354 6801 - Toll free: +1 (888) 813 6309 - Fax: +1 (510) 372 0604 - - You can also email us at <support@gluster.com>. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Installation and Invocation, Next: Concepts, Prev: Introduction, Up: Top - -2 Installation and Invocation -***************************** - -* Menu: - -* Pre requisites:: -* Getting GlusterFS:: -* Building:: -* Running GlusterFS:: -* A Tutorial Introduction:: - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Pre requisites, Next: Getting GlusterFS, Up: Installation and Invocation - -2.1 Pre requisites -================== - -Before installing GlusterFS make sure you have the following components -installed. - -2.1.1 FUSE ----------- - -You'll need FUSE version 2.6.0 or higher to use GlusterFS. You can omit -installing FUSE if you want to build _only_ the server. Note that you -won't be able to mount a GlusterFS filesystem on a machine that does -not have FUSE installed. - - FUSE can be downloaded from: <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> - - To get the best performance from GlusterFS, however, it is -recommended that you use our patched version of FUSE. See Patched FUSE -for details. - -2.1.2 Patched FUSE ------------------- - -The GlusterFS project maintains a patched version of FUSE meant to be -used with GlusterFS. The patches increase GlusterFS performance. It is -recommended that all users use the patched FUSE. - - The patched FUSE tarball can be downloaded from: - - <ftp://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/fuse/> - - The specific changes made to FUSE are: - - * The communication channel size between FUSE kernel module and - GlusterFS has been increased to 1MB, permitting large reads and - writes to be sent in bigger chunks. - - * The kernel's read-ahead boundary has been extended up to 1MB. - - * Block size returned in the `stat()'/`fstat()' calls tuned to 1MB, - to make cp and similar commands perform I/O using that block size. - - * `flock()' locking support has been added (although some rework in - GlusterFS is needed for perfect compliance). - -2.1.3 libibverbs (optional) ---------------------------- - -This is only needed if you want GlusterFS to use InfiniBand as the -interconnect mechanism between server and client. You can get it from: - - <http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads.htm>. - -2.1.4 Bison and Flex --------------------- - -These should be already installed on most Linux systems. If not, use -your distribution's normal software installation procedures to install -them. Make sure you install the relevant developer packages also. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Getting GlusterFS, Next: Building, Prev: Pre requisites, Up: Installation and Invocation - -2.2 Getting GlusterFS -===================== - -There are many ways to get hold of GlusterFS. For a production -deployment, the recommended method is to download the latest release -tarball. Release tarballs are available at: -<http://gluster.org/download.php>. - - If you want the bleeding edge development source, you can get them -from the GNU Arch(1) repository. First you must install GNU Arch -itself. Then register the GlusterFS archive by doing: - - $ tla register-archive http://arch.sv.gnu.org/archives/gluster - - Now you can check out the source itself: - - $ tla get -A gluster@sv.gnu.org glusterfs--mainline--3.0 - - ---------- Footnotes ---------- - - (1) <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/> - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Building, Next: Running GlusterFS, Prev: Getting GlusterFS, Up: Installation and Invocation - -2.3 Building -============ - -You can skip this section if you're installing from RPMs or DEBs. - - GlusterFS uses the Autotools mechanism to build. As such, the -procedure is straight-forward. First, change into the GlusterFS source -directory. - - $ cd glusterfs-<version> - - If you checked out the source from the Arch repository, you'll need -to run `./autogen.sh' first. Note that you'll need to have Autoconf and -Automake installed for this. - - Run `configure'. - - $ ./configure - - The configure script accepts the following options: - -`--disable-ibverbs' - Disable the InfiniBand transport mechanism. - -`--disable-fuse-client' - Disable the FUSE client. - -`--disable-server' - Disable building of the GlusterFS server. - -`--disable-bdb' - Disable building of Berkeley DB based storage translator. - -`--disable-mod_glusterfs' - Disable building of Apache/lighttpd glusterfs plugins. - -`--disable-epoll' - Use poll instead of epoll. - -`--disable-libglusterfsclient' - Disable building of libglusterfsclient - - - Build and install GlusterFS. - - # make install - - The binaries (`glusterfsd' and `glusterfs') will be by default -installed in `/usr/local/sbin/'. Translator, scheduler, and transport -shared libraries will be installed in -`/usr/local/lib/glusterfs/<version>/'. Sample volume specification -files will be in `/usr/local/etc/glusterfs/'. This document itself can -be found in `/usr/local/share/doc/glusterfs/'. If you passed the -`--prefix' argument to the configure script, then replace `/usr/local' -in the preceding paths with the prefix. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Running GlusterFS, Next: A Tutorial Introduction, Prev: Building, Up: Installation and Invocation - -2.4 Running GlusterFS -===================== - -* Menu: - -* Server:: -* Client:: - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Server, Next: Client, Up: Running GlusterFS - -2.4.1 Server ------------- - -The GlusterFS server is necessary to export storage volumes to remote -clients (See *note Server protocol:: for more info). This section -documents the invocation of the GlusterFS server program and all the -command-line options accepted by it. - - Basic Options - -`-f, --volfile=<path>' - Use the volume file as the volume specification. - -`-s, --volfile-server=<hostname>' - Server to get volume file from. This option overrides -volfile - option. - -`-l, --log-file=<path>' - Specify the path for the log file. - -`-L, --log-level=<level>' - Set the log level for the server. Log level should be one of DEBUG, - WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL, or NONE. - - Advanced Options - -`--debug' - Run in debug mode. This option sets -no-daemon, -log-level to - DEBUG and -log-file to console. - -`-N, --no-daemon' - Run glusterfsd as a foreground process. - -`-p, --pid-file=<path>' - Path for the PID file. - -`--volfile-id=<key>' - 'key' of the volfile to be fetched from server. - -`--volfile-server-port=<port-number>' - Listening port number of volfile server. - -`--volfile-server-transport=[tcp|ib-verbs]' - Transport type to get volfile from server. [default: `tcp'] - -`--xlator-options=<volume-name.option=value>' - Add/override a translator option for a volume with specified value. - - Miscellaneous Options - -`-?, --help' - Show this help text. - -`--usage' - Display a short usage message. - -`-V, --version' - Show version information. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Client, Prev: Server, Up: Running GlusterFS - -2.4.2 Client ------------- - -The GlusterFS client process is necessary to access remote storage -volumes and mount them locally using FUSE. This section documents the -invocation of the client process and all its command-line arguments. - - # glusterfs [options] <mountpoint> - - The `mountpoint' is the directory where you want the GlusterFS -filesystem to appear. Example: - - # glusterfs -f /usr/local/etc/glusterfs-client.vol /mnt - - The command-line options are detailed below. - - Basic Options - -`-f, --volfile=<path>' - Use the volume file as the volume specification. - -`-s, --volfile-server=<hostname>' - Server to get volume file from. This option overrides -volfile - option. - -`-l, --log-file=<path>' - Specify the path for the log file. - -`-L, --log-level=<level>' - Set the log level for the server. Log level should be one of DEBUG, - WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL, or NONE. - - Advanced Options - -`--debug' - Run in debug mode. This option sets -no-daemon, -log-level to - DEBUG and -log-file to console. - -`-N, --no-daemon' - Run `glusterfs' as a foreground process. - -`-p, --pid-file=<path>' - Path for the PID file. - -`--volfile-id=<key>' - 'key' of the volfile to be fetched from server. - -`--volfile-server-port=<port-number>' - Listening port number of volfile server. - -`--volfile-server-transport=[tcp|ib-verbs]' - Transport type to get volfile from server. [default: `tcp'] - -`--xlator-options=<volume-name.option=value>' - Add/override a translator option for a volume with specified value. - -`--volume-name=<volume name>' - Volume name in client spec to use. Defaults to the root volume. - - FUSE Options - -`--attribute-timeout=<n>' - Attribute timeout for inodes in the kernel, in seconds. Defaults - to 1 second. - -`--disable-direct-io-mode' - Disable direct I/O mode in FUSE kernel module. - -`-e, --entry-timeout=<n>' - Entry timeout for directory entries in the kernel, in seconds. - Defaults to 1 second. - - Missellaneous Options - -`-?, --help' - Show this help information. - -`-V, --version' - Show version information. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: A Tutorial Introduction, Prev: Running GlusterFS, Up: Installation and Invocation - -2.5 A Tutorial Introduction -=========================== - -This section will show you how to quickly get GlusterFS up and running. -We'll configure GlusterFS as a simple network filesystem, with one -server and one client. In this mode of usage, GlusterFS can serve as a -replacement for NFS. - - We'll make use of two machines; call them _server_ and _client_ (If -you don't want to setup two machines, just run everything that follows -on the same machine). In the examples that follow, the shell prompts -will use these names to clarify the machine on which the command is -being run. For example, a command that should be run on the server will -be shown with the prompt: - - [root@server]# - - Our goal is to make a directory on the _server_ (say, `/export') -accessible to the _client_. - - First of all, get GlusterFS installed on both the machines, as -described in the previous sections. Make sure you have the FUSE kernel -module loaded. You can ensure this by running: - - [root@server]# modprobe fuse - - Before we can run the GlusterFS client or server programs, we need -to write two files called _volume specifications_ (equivalently referred -to as _volfiles_). The volfile describes the _translator tree_ on a -node. The next chapter will explain the concepts of `translator' and -`volume specification' in detail. For now, just assume that the volfile -is like an NFS `/etc/export' file. - - On the server, create a text file somewhere (we'll assume the path -`/tmp/glusterfsd.vol') with the following contents. - - volume colon-o - type storage/posix - option directory /export - end-volume - - volume server - type protocol/server - subvolumes colon-o - option transport-type tcp - option auth.addr.colon-o.allow * - end-volume - - A brief explanation of the file's contents. The first section -defines a storage volume, named "colon-o" (the volume names are -arbitrary), which exports the `/export' directory. The second section -defines options for the translator which will make the storage volume -accessible remotely. It specifies `colon-o' as a subvolume. This -defines the _translator tree_, about which more will be said in the -next chapter. The two options specify that the TCP protocol is to be -used (as opposed to InfiniBand, for example), and that access to the -storage volume is to be provided to clients with any IP address at all. -If you wanted to restrict access to this server to only your subnet for -example, you'd specify something like `192.168.1.*' in the second -option line. - - On the client machine, create the following text file (again, we'll -assume the path to be `/tmp/glusterfs-client.vol'). Replace -_server-ip-address_ with the IP address of your server machine. If you -are doing all this on a single machine, use `127.0.0.1'. - - volume client - type protocol/client - option transport-type tcp - option remote-host _server-ip-address_ - option remote-subvolume colon-o - end-volume - - Now we need to start both the server and client programs. To start -the server: - - [root@server]# glusterfsd -f /tmp/glusterfs-server.vol - - To start the client: - - [root@client]# glusterfs -f /tmp/glusterfs-client.vol /mnt/glusterfs - - You should now be able to see the files under the server's `/export' -directory in the `/mnt/glusterfs' directory on the client. That's it; -GlusterFS is now working as a network file system. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Concepts, Next: Translators, Prev: Installation and Invocation, Up: Top - -3 Concepts -********** - -* Menu: - -* Filesystems in Userspace:: -* Translator:: -* Volume specification file:: - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Filesystems in Userspace, Next: Translator, Up: Concepts - -3.1 Filesystems in Userspace -============================ - -A filesystem is usually implemented in kernel space. Kernel space -development is much harder than userspace development. FUSE is a kernel -module/library that allows us to write a filesystem completely in -userspace. - - FUSE consists of a kernel module which interacts with the userspace -implementation using a device file `/dev/fuse'. When a process makes a -syscall on a FUSE filesystem, VFS hands the request to the FUSE module, -which writes the request to `/dev/fuse'. The userspace implementation -polls `/dev/fuse', and when a request arrives, processes it and writes -the result back to `/dev/fuse'. The kernel then reads from the device -file and returns the result to the user process. - - In case of GlusterFS, the userspace program is the GlusterFS client. -The control flow is shown in the diagram below. The GlusterFS client -services the request by sending it to the server, which in turn hands -it to the local POSIX filesystem. - - - Fig 1. Control flow in GlusterFS - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Translator, Next: Volume specification file, Prev: Filesystems in Userspace, Up: Concepts - -3.2 Translator -============== - -The _translator_ is the most important concept in GlusterFS. In fact, -GlusterFS is nothing but a collection of translators working together, -forming a translator _tree_. - - The idea of a translator is perhaps best understood using an -analogy. Consider the VFS in the Linux kernel. The VFS abstracts the -various filesystem implementations (such as EXT3, ReiserFS, XFS, etc.) -supported by the kernel. When an application calls the kernel to -perform an operation on a file, the kernel passes the request on to the -appropriate filesystem implementation. - - For example, let's say there are two partitions on a Linux machine: -`/', which is an EXT3 partition, and `/usr', which is a ReiserFS -partition. Now if an application wants to open a file called, say, -`/etc/fstab', then the kernel will internally pass the request to the -EXT3 implementation. If on the other hand, an application wants to -read a file called `/usr/src/linux/CREDITS', then the kernel will call -upon the ReiserFS implementation to do the job. - - The "filesystem implementation" objects are analogous to GlusterFS -translators. A GlusterFS translator implements all the filesystem -operations. Whereas in VFS there is a two-level tree (with the kernel -at the root and all the filesystem implementation as its children), in -GlusterFS there exists a more elaborate tree structure. - - We can now define translators more precisely. A GlusterFS translator -is a shared object (`.so') that implements every filesystem call. -GlusterFS translators can be arranged in an arbitrary tree structure -(subject to constraints imposed by the translators). When GlusterFS -receives a filesystem call, it passes it on to the translator at the -root of the translator tree. The root translator may in turn pass it on -to any or all of its children, and so on, until the leaf nodes are -reached. The result of a filesystem call is communicated in the reverse -fashion, from the leaf nodes up to the root node, and then on to the -application. - - So what might a translator tree look like? - - - Fig 2. A sample translator tree - - The diagram depicts three servers and one GlusterFS client. It is -important to note that conceptually, the translator tree spans machine -boundaries. Thus, the client machine in the diagram, `10.0.0.1', can -access the aggregated storage of the filesystems on the server machines -`10.0.0.2', `10.0.0.3', and `10.0.0.4'. The translator diagram will -make more sense once you've read the next chapter and understood the -functions of the various translators. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Volume specification file, Prev: Translator, Up: Concepts - -3.3 Volume specification file -============================= - -The volume specification file describes the translator tree for both the -server and client programs. - - A volume specification file is a sequence of volume definitions. -The syntax of a volume definition is explained below: - - *volume* _volume-name_ - *type* _translator-name_ - *option* _option-name_ _option-value_ - ... - *subvolumes* _subvolume1_ _subvolume2_ ... - *end-volume* - - ... - -_volume-name_ - An identifier for the volume. This is just a human-readable name, - and can contain any alphanumeric character. For instance, - "storage-1", "colon-o", or "forty-two". - -_translator-name_ - Name of one of the available translators. Example: - `protocol/client', `cluster/unify'. - -_option-name_ - Name of a valid option for the translator. - -_option-value_ - Value for the option. Everything following the "option" keyword to - the end of the line is considered the value; it is up to the - translator to parse it. - -_subvolume1_, _subvolume2_, ... - Volume names of sub-volumes. The sub-volumes must already have - been defined earlier in the file. - - There are a few rules you must follow when writing a volume -specification file: - - * Everything following a ``#'' is considered a comment and is - ignored. Blank lines are also ignored. - - * All names and keywords are case-sensitive. - - * The order of options inside a volume definition does not matter. - - * An option value may not span multiple lines. - - * If an option is not specified, it will assume its default value. - - * A sub-volume must have already been defined before it can be - referenced. This means you have to write the specification file - "bottom-up", starting from the leaf nodes of the translator tree - and moving up to the root. - - A simple example volume specification file is shown below: - - # This is a comment line - volume client - type protocol/client - option transport-type tcp - option remote-host localhost # Also a comment - option remote-subvolume brick - # The subvolumes line may be absent - end-volume - - volume iot - type performance/io-threads - option thread-count 4 - subvolumes client - end-volume - - volume wb - type performance/write-behind - subvolumes iot - end-volume - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Translators, Next: Usage Scenarios, Prev: Concepts, Up: Top - -4 Translators -************* - -* Menu: - -* Storage Translators:: -* Client and Server Translators:: -* Clustering Translators:: -* Performance Translators:: -* Features Translators:: -* Miscellaneous Translators:: - - This chapter documents all the available GlusterFS translators in -detail. Each translator section will show its name (for example, -`cluster/unify'), briefly describe its purpose and workings, and list -every option accepted by that translator and their meaning. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Storage Translators, Next: Client and Server Translators, Up: Translators - -4.1 Storage Translators -======================= - -The storage translators form the "backend" for GlusterFS. Currently, -the only available storage translator is the POSIX translator, which -stores files on a normal POSIX filesystem. A pleasant consequence of -this is that your data will still be accessible if GlusterFS crashes or -cannot be started. - - Other storage backends are planned for the future. One of the -possibilities is an Amazon S3 translator. Amazon S3 is an unlimited -online storage service accessible through a web services API. The S3 -translator will allow you to access the storage as a normal POSIX -filesystem. (1) - -* Menu: - -* POSIX:: -* BDB:: - - ---------- Footnotes ---------- - - (1) Some more discussion about this can be found at: - -http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?messageID=52873 - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: POSIX, Next: BDB, Up: Storage Translators - -4.1.1 POSIX ------------ - - type storage/posix - - The `posix' translator uses a normal POSIX filesystem as its -"backend" to actually store files and directories. This can be any -filesystem that supports extended attributes (EXT3, ReiserFS, XFS, -...). Extended attributes are used by some translators to store -metadata, for example, by the replicate and stripe translators. See -*note Replicate:: and *note Stripe::, respectively for details. - -`directory <path>' - The directory on the local filesystem which is to be used for - storage. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: BDB, Prev: POSIX, Up: Storage Translators - -4.1.2 BDB ---------- - - type storage/bdb - - The `BDB' translator uses a Berkeley DB database as its "backend" to -actually store files as key-value pair in the database and directories -as regular POSIX directories. Note that BDB does not provide extended -attribute support for regular files. Do not use BDB as storage -translator while using any translator that demands extended attributes -on "backend". - -`directory <path>' - The directory on the local filesystem which is to be used for - storage. - -`mode [cache|persistent] (cache)' - When BDB is run in `cache' mode, recovery of back-end is not - completely guaranteed. `persistent' guarantees that BDB can - recover back-end from Berkeley DB even if GlusterFS crashes. - -`errfile <path>' - The path of the file to be used as `errfile' for Berkeley DB to - report detailed error messages, if any. Note that all the contents - of this file will be written by Berkeley DB, not GlusterFS. - -`logdir <path>' - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Client and Server Translators, Next: Clustering Translators, Prev: Storage Translators, Up: Translators - -4.2 Client and Server Translators -================================= - -The client and server translator enable GlusterFS to export a -translator tree over the network or access a remote GlusterFS server. -These two translators implement GlusterFS's network protocol. - -* Menu: - -* Transport modules:: -* Client protocol:: -* Server protocol:: - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Transport modules, Next: Client protocol, Up: Client and Server Translators - -4.2.1 Transport modules ------------------------ - -The client and server translators are capable of using any of the -pluggable transport modules. Currently available transport modules are -`tcp', which uses a TCP connection between client and server to -communicate; `ib-sdp', which uses a TCP connection over InfiniBand, and -`ibverbs', which uses high-speed InfiniBand connections. - - Each transport module comes in two different versions, one to be -used on the server side and the other on the client side. - -4.2.1.1 TCP -........... - -The TCP transport module uses a TCP/IP connection between the server -and the client. - - option transport-type tcp - - The TCP client module accepts the following options: - -`non-blocking-connect [no|off|on|yes] (on)' - Whether to make the connection attempt asynchronous. - -`remote-port <n> (24007)' - Server port to connect to. - -`remote-host <hostname> *' - Hostname or IP address of the server. If the host name resolves to - multiple IP addresses, all of them will be tried in a round-robin - fashion. This feature can be used to implement fail-over. - - The TCP server module accepts the following options: - -`bind-address <address> (0.0.0.0)' - The local interface on which the server should listen to requests. - Default is to listen on all interfaces. - -`listen-port <n> (24007)' - The local port to listen on. - -4.2.1.2 IB-SDP -.............. - - option transport-type ib-sdp - - kernel implements socket interface for ib hardware. SDP is over -ib-verbs. This module accepts the same options as `tcp' - -4.2.1.3 ibverbs -............... - - option transport-type tcp - - InfiniBand is a scalable switched fabric interconnect mechanism -primarily used in high-performance computing. InfiniBand can deliver -data throughput of the order of 10 Gbit/s, with latencies of 4-5 ms. - - The `ib-verbs' transport accesses the InfiniBand hardware through -the "verbs" API, which is the lowest level of software access possible -and which gives the highest performance. On InfiniBand hardware, it is -always best to use `ib-verbs'. Use `ib-sdp' only if you cannot get -`ib-verbs' working for some reason. - - The `ib-verbs' client module accepts the following options: - -`non-blocking-connect [no|off|on|yes] (on)' - Whether to make the connection attempt asynchronous. - -`remote-port <n> (24007)' - Server port to connect to. - -`remote-host <hostname> *' - Hostname or IP address of the server. If the host name resolves to - multiple IP addresses, all of them will be tried in a round-robin - fashion. This feature can be used to implement fail-over. - - The `ib-verbs' server module accepts the following options: - -`bind-address <address> (0.0.0.0)' - The local interface on which the server should listen to requests. - Default is to listen on all interfaces. - -`listen-port <n> (24007)' - The local port to listen on. - - The following options are common to both the client and server -modules: - - If you are familiar with InfiniBand jargon, the mode is used by -GlusterFS is "reliable connection-oriented channel transfer". - -`ib-verbs-work-request-send-count <n> (64)' - Length of the send queue in datagrams. [Reason to - increase/decrease?] - -`ib-verbs-work-request-recv-count <n> (64)' - Length of the receive queue in datagrams. [Reason to - increase/decrease?] - -`ib-verbs-work-request-send-size <size> (128KB)' - Size of each datagram that is sent. [Reason to increase/decrease?] - -`ib-verbs-work-request-recv-size <size> (128KB)' - Size of each datagram that is received. [Reason to - increase/decrease?] - -`ib-verbs-port <n> (1)' - Port number for ib-verbs. - -`ib-verbs-mtu [256|512|1024|2048|4096] (2048)' - The Maximum Transmission Unit [Reason to increase/decrease?] - -`ib-verbs-device-name <device-name> (first device in the list)' - InfiniBand device to be used. - - For maximum performance, you should ensure that the send/receive -counts on both the client and server are the same. - - ib-verbs is preferred over ib-sdp. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Client protocol, Next: Server protocol, Prev: Transport modules, Up: Client and Server Translators - -4.2.2 Client ------------- - - type procotol/client - - The client translator enables the GlusterFS client to access a -remote server's translator tree. - -`transport-type [tcp,ib-sdp,ib-verbs] (tcp)' - The transport type to use. You should use the client versions of - all the transport modules (`tcp', `ib-sdp', `ib-verbs'). - -`remote-subvolume <volume_name> *' - The name of the volume on the remote host to attach to. Note that - this is _not_ the name of the `protocol/server' volume on the - server. It should be any volume under the server. - -`transport-timeout <n> (120- seconds)' - Inactivity timeout. If a reply is expected and no activity takes - place on the connection within this time, the transport connection - will be broken, and a new connection will be attempted. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Server protocol, Prev: Client protocol, Up: Client and Server Translators - -4.2.3 Server ------------- - - type protocol/server - - The server translator exports a translator tree and makes it -accessible to remote GlusterFS clients. - -`client-volume-filename <path> (<CONFDIR>/glusterfs-client.vol)' - The volume specification file to use for the client. This is the - file the client will receive when it is invoked with the - `--server' option (*note Client::). - -`transport-type [tcp,ib-verbs,ib-sdp] (tcp)' - The transport to use. You should use the server versions of all - the transport modules (`tcp', `ib-sdp', `ib-verbs'). - -`auth.addr.<volume name>.allow <IP address wildcard pattern>' - IP addresses of the clients that are allowed to attach to the - specified volume. This can be a wildcard. For example, a wildcard - of the form `192.168.*.*' allows any host in the `192.168.x.x' - subnet to connect to the server. - - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Clustering Translators, Next: Performance Translators, Prev: Client and Server Translators, Up: Translators - -4.3 Clustering Translators -========================== - -The clustering translators are the most important GlusterFS -translators, since it is these that make GlusterFS a cluster -filesystem. These translators together enable GlusterFS to access an -arbitrarily large amount of storage, and provide RAID-like redundancy -and distribution over the entire cluster. - - There are three clustering translators: *unify*, *replicate*, and -*stripe*. The unify translator aggregates storage from many server -nodes. The replicate translator provides file replication. The stripe -translator allows a file to be spread across many server nodes. The -following sections look at each of these translators in detail. - -* Menu: - -* Unify:: -* Replicate:: -* Stripe:: - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Unify, Next: Replicate, Up: Clustering Translators - -4.3.1 Unify ------------ - - type cluster/unify - - The unify translator presents a `unified' view of all its -sub-volumes. That is, it makes the union of all its sub-volumes appear -as a single volume. It is the unify translator that gives GlusterFS the -ability to access an arbitrarily large amount of storage. - - For unify to work correctly, certain invariants need to be -maintained across the entire network. These are: - - * The directory structure of all the sub-volumes must be identical. - - * A particular file can exist on only one of the sub-volumes. - Phrasing it in another way, a pathname such as - `/home/calvin/homework.txt') is unique across the entire cluster. - - - -Looking at the second requirement, you might wonder how one can -accomplish storing redundant copies of a file, if no file can exist -multiple times. To answer, we must remember that these invariants are -from _unify's perspective_. A translator such as replicate at a lower -level in the translator tree than unify may subvert this picture. - - The first invariant might seem quite tedious to ensure. We shall see -later that this is not so, since unify's _self-heal_ mechanism takes -care of maintaining it. - - The second invariant implies that unify needs some way to decide -which file goes where. Unify makes use of _scheduler_ modules for this -purpose. - - When a file needs to be created, unify's scheduler decides upon the -sub-volume to be used to store the file. There are many schedulers -available, each using a different algorithm and suitable for different -purposes. - - The various schedulers are described in detail in the sections that -follow. - -4.3.1.1 ALU -........... - - option scheduler alu - - ALU stands for "Adaptive Least Usage". It is the most advanced -scheduler available in GlusterFS. It balances the load across volumes -taking several factors in account. It adapts itself to changing I/O -patterns according to its configuration. When properly configured, it -can eliminate the need for regular tuning of the filesystem to keep -volume load nicely balanced. - - The ALU scheduler is composed of multiple least-usage -sub-schedulers. Each sub-scheduler keeps track of a certain type of -load, for each of the sub-volumes, getting statistics from the -sub-volumes themselves. The sub-schedulers are these: - - * disk-usage: The used and free disk space on the volume. - - * read-usage: The amount of reading done from this volume. - - * write-usage: The amount of writing done to this volume. - - * open-files-usage: The number of files currently open from this - volume. - - * disk-speed-usage: The speed at which the disks are spinning. This - is a constant value and therefore not very useful. - - The ALU scheduler needs to know which of these sub-schedulers to use, -and in which order to evaluate them. This is done through the `option -alu.order' configuration directive. - - Each sub-scheduler needs to know two things: when to kick in (the -entry-threshold), and how long to stay in control (the exit-threshold). -For example: when unifying three disks of 100GB, keeping an exact -balance of disk-usage is not necessary. Instead, there could be a 1GB -margin, which can be used to nicely balance other factors, such as -read-usage. The disk-usage scheduler can be told to kick in only when a -certain threshold of discrepancy is passed, such as 1GB. When it -assumes control under this condition, it will write all subsequent data -to the least-used volume. If it is doing so, it is unwise to stop right -after the values are below the entry-threshold again, since that would -make it very likely that the situation will occur again very soon. Such -a situation would cause the ALU to spend most of its time disk-usage -scheduling, which is unfair to the other sub-schedulers. The -exit-threshold therefore defines the amount of data that needs to be -written to the least-used disk, before control is relinquished again. - - In addition to the sub-schedulers, the ALU scheduler also has -"limits" options. These can stop the creation of new files on a volume -once values drop below a certain threshold. For example, setting -`option alu.limits.min-free-disk 5GB' will stop the scheduling of files -to volumes that have less than 5GB of free disk space, leaving the -files on that disk some room to grow. - - The actual values you assign to the thresholds for sub-schedulers and -limits depend on your situation. If you have fast-growing files, you'll -want to stop file-creation on a disk much earlier than when hardly any -of your files are growing. If you care less about disk-usage balance -than about read-usage balance, you'll want a bigger disk-usage -scheduler entry-threshold and a smaller read-usage scheduler -entry-threshold. - - For thresholds defining a size, values specifying "KB", "MB" and "GB" -are allowed. For example: `option alu.limits.min-free-disk 5GB'. - -`alu.order <order> * ("disk-usage:write-usage:read-usage:open-files-usage:disk-speed")' - -`alu.disk-usage.entry-threshold <size> (1GB)' - -`alu.disk-usage.exit-threshold <size> (512MB)' - -`alu.write-usage.entry-threshold <%> (25)' - -`alu.write-usage.exit-threshold <%> (5)' - -`alu.read-usage.entry-threshold <%> (25)' - -`alu.read-usage.exit-threshold <%> (5)' - -`alu.open-files-usage.entry-threshold <n> (1000)' - -`alu.open-files-usage.exit-threshold <n> (100)' - -`alu.limits.min-free-disk <%>' - -`alu.limits.max-open-files <n>' - -4.3.1.2 Round Robin (RR) -........................ - - option scheduler rr - - Round-Robin (RR) scheduler creates files in a round-robin fashion. -Each client will have its own round-robin loop. When your files are -mostly similar in size and I/O access pattern, this scheduler is a good -choice. RR scheduler checks for free disk space on the server before -scheduling, so you can know when to add another server node. The -default value of min-free-disk is 5% and is checked on file creation -calls, with atleast 10 seconds (by default) elapsing between two checks. - - Options: -`rr.limits.min-free-disk <%> (5)' - Minimum free disk space a node must have for RR to schedule a file - to it. - -`rr.refresh-interval <t> (10 seconds)' - Time between two successive free disk space checks. - -4.3.1.3 Random -.............. - - option scheduler random - - The random scheduler schedules file creation randomly among its -child nodes. Like the round-robin scheduler, it also checks for a -minimum amount of free disk space before scheduling a file to a node. - -`random.limits.min-free-disk <%> (5)' - Minimum free disk space a node must have for random to schedule a - file to it. - -`random.refresh-interval <t> (10 seconds)' - Time between two successive free disk space checks. - -4.3.1.4 NUFA -............ - - option scheduler nufa - - It is common in many GlusterFS computing environments for all -deployed machines to act as both servers and clients. For example, a -research lab may have 40 workstations each with its own storage. All of -these workstations might act as servers exporting a volume as well as -clients accessing the entire cluster's storage. In such a situation, -it makes sense to store locally created files on the local workstation -itself (assuming files are accessed most by the workstation that -created them). The Non-Uniform File Allocation (NUFA) scheduler -accomplishes that. - - NUFA gives the local system first priority for file creation over -other nodes. If the local volume does not have more free disk space -than a specified amount (5% by default) then NUFA schedules files among -the other child volumes in a round-robin fashion. - - NUFA is named after the similar strategy used for memory access, -NUMA(1). - -`nufa.limits.min-free-disk <%> (5)' - Minimum disk space that must be free (local or remote) for NUFA to - schedule a file to it. - -`nufa.refresh-interval <t> (10 seconds)' - Time between two successive free disk space checks. - -`nufa.local-volume-name <volume>' - The name of the volume corresponding to the local system. This - volume must be one of the children of the unify volume. This - option is mandatory. - -4.3.1.5 Namespace -................. - -Namespace volume needed because: - persistent inode numbers. - file -exists even when node is down. - - namespace files are simply touched. on every lookup it is checked. - -`namespace <volume> *' - Name of the namespace volume (which should be one of the unify - volume's children). - -`self-heal [on|off] (on)' - Enable/disable self-heal. Unless you know what you are doing, do - not disable self-heal. - -4.3.1.6 Self Heal -................. - -* When a 'lookup()/stat()' call is made on directory for the first -time, a self-heal call is made, which checks for the consistancy of its -child nodes. If an entry is present in storage node, but not in -namespace, that entry is created in namespace, and vica-versa. There is -an writedir() API introduced which is used for the same. It also checks -for permissions, and uid/gid consistencies. - - * This check is also done when an server goes down and comes up. - - * If one starts with an empty namespace export, but has data in -storage nodes, a 'find .>/dev/null' or 'ls -lR >/dev/null' should help -to build namespace in one shot. Even otherwise, namespace is built on -demand when a file is looked up for the first time. - - NOTE: There are some issues (Kernel 'Oops' msgs) seen with -fuse-2.6.3, when someone deletes namespace in backend, when glusterfs is -running. But with fuse-2.6.5, this issue is not there. - - ---------- Footnotes ---------- - - (1) Non-Uniform Memory Access: -<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Uniform_Memory_Access> - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Replicate, Next: Stripe, Prev: Unify, Up: Clustering Translators - -4.3.2 Replicate (formerly AFR) ------------------------------- - - type cluster/replicate - - Replicate provides RAID-1 like functionality for GlusterFS. -Replicate replicates files and directories across the subvolumes. Hence -if Replicate has four subvolumes, there will be four copies of all -files and directories. Replicate provides high-availability, i.e., in -case one of the subvolumes go down (e. g. server crash, network -disconnection) Replicate will still service the requests using the -redundant copies. - - Replicate also provides self-heal functionality, i.e., in case the -crashed servers come up, the outdated files and directories will be -updated with the latest versions. Replicate uses extended attributes of -the backend file system to track the versioning of files and -directories and provide the self-heal feature. - - volume replicate-example - type cluster/replicate - subvolumes brick1 brick2 brick3 - end-volume - - This sample configuration will replicate all directories and files on -brick1, brick2 and brick3. - - All the read operations happen from the first alive child. If all the -three sub-volumes are up, reads will be done from brick1; if brick1 is -down read will be done from brick2. In case read() was being done on -brick1 and it goes down, replicate transparently falls back to brick2. - - The next release of GlusterFS will add the following features: - * Ability to specify the sub-volume from which read operations are - to be done (this will help users who have one of the sub-volumes - as a local storage volume). - - * Allow scheduling of read operations amongst the sub-volumes in a - round-robin fashion. - - The order of the subvolumes list should be same across all the -'replicate's as they will be used for locking purposes. - -4.3.2.1 Self Heal -................. - -Replicate has self-heal feature, which updates the outdated file and -directory copies by the most recent versions. For example consider the -following config: - - volume replicate-example - type cluster/replicate - subvolumes brick1 brick2 - end-volume - -4.3.2.2 File self-heal -...................... - -Now if we create a file foo.txt on replicate-example, the file will be -created on brick1 and brick2. The file will have two extended -attributes associated with it in the backend filesystem. One is -trusted.afr.createtime and the other is trusted.afr.version. The -trusted.afr.createtime xattr has the create time (in terms of seconds -since epoch) and trusted.afr.version is a number that is incremented -each time a file is modified. This increment happens during close -(incase any write was done before close). - - If brick1 goes down, we edit foo.txt the version gets incremented. -Now the brick1 comes back up, when we open() on foo.txt replicate will -check if their versions are same. If they are not same, the outdated -copy is replaced by the latest copy and its version is updated. After -the sync the open() proceeds in the usual manner and the application -calling open() can continue on its access to the file. - - If brick1 goes down, we delete foo.txt and create a file with the -same name again i.e foo.txt. Now brick1 comes back up, clearly there is -a chance that the version on brick1 being more than the version on -brick2, this is where createtime extended attribute helps in deciding -which the outdated copy is. Hence we need to consider both createtime -and version to decide on the latest copy. - - The version attribute is incremented during the close() call. Version -will not be incremented in case there was no write() done. In case the -fd that the close() gets was got by create() call, we also create the -createtime extended attribute. - -4.3.2.3 Directory self-heal -........................... - -Suppose brick1 goes down, we delete foo.txt, brick1 comes back up, now -we should not create foo.txt on brick2 but we should delete foo.txt on -brick1. We handle this situation by having the createtime and version -attribute on the directory similar to the file. when lookup() is done -on the directory, we compare the createtime/version attributes of the -copies and see which files needs to be deleted and delete those files -and update the extended attributes of the outdated directory copy. -Each time a directory is modified (a file or a subdirectory is created -or deleted inside the directory) and one of the subvols is down, we -increment the directory's version. - - lookup() is a call initiated by the kernel on a file or directory -just before any access to that file or directory. In glusterfs, by -default, lookup() will not be called in case it was called in the past -one second on that particular file or directory. - - The extended attributes can be seen in the backend filesystem using -the `getfattr' command. (`getfattr -n trusted.afr.version <file>') - -`debug [on|off] (off)' - -`self-heal [on|off] (on)' - -`replicate <pattern> (*:1)' - -`lock-node <child_volume> (first child is used by default)' - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Stripe, Prev: Replicate, Up: Clustering Translators - -4.3.3 Stripe ------------- - - type cluster/stripe - - The stripe translator distributes the contents of a file over its -sub-volumes. It does this by creating a file equal in size to the -total size of the file on each of its sub-volumes. It then writes only -a part of the file to each sub-volume, leaving the rest of it empty. -These empty regions are called `holes' in Unix terminology. The holes -do not consume any disk space. - - The diagram below makes this clear. - - - -You can configure stripe so that only filenames matching a pattern are -striped. You can also configure the size of the data to be stored on -each sub-volume. - -`block-size <pattern>:<size> (*:0 no striping)' - Distribute files matching `<pattern>' over the sub-volumes, - storing at least `<size>' on each sub-volume. For example, - - option block-size *.mpg:1M - - distributes all files ending in `.mpg', storing at least 1 MB on - each sub-volume. - - Any number of `block-size' option lines may be present, specifying - different sizes for different file name patterns. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Performance Translators, Next: Features Translators, Prev: Clustering Translators, Up: Translators - -4.4 Performance Translators -=========================== - -* Menu: - -* Read Ahead:: -* Write Behind:: -* IO Threads:: -* IO Cache:: -* Booster:: - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Read Ahead, Next: Write Behind, Up: Performance Translators - -4.4.1 Read Ahead ----------------- - - type performance/read-ahead - - The read-ahead translator pre-fetches data in advance on every read. -This benefits applications that mostly process files in sequential -order, since the next block of data will already be available by the -time the application is done with the current one. - - Additionally, the read-ahead translator also behaves as a -read-aggregator. Many small read operations are combined and issued as -fewer, larger read requests to the server. - - Read-ahead deals in "pages" as the unit of data fetched. The page -size is configurable, as is the "page count", which is the number of -pages that are pre-fetched. - - Read-ahead is best used with InfiniBand (using the ib-verbs -transport). On FastEthernet and Gigabit Ethernet networks, GlusterFS -can achieve the link-maximum throughput even without read-ahead, making -it quite superflous. - - Note that read-ahead only happens if the reads are perfectly -sequential. If your application accesses data in a random fashion, -using read-ahead might actually lead to a performance loss, since -read-ahead will pointlessly fetch pages which won't be used by the -application. - - Options: -`page-size <n> (256KB)' - The unit of data that is pre-fetched. - -`page-count <n> (2)' - The number of pages that are pre-fetched. - -`force-atime-update [on|off|yes|no] (off|no)' - Whether to force an access time (atime) update on the file on - every read. Without this, the atime will be slightly imprecise, as - it will reflect the time when the read-ahead translator read the - data, not when the application actually read it. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Write Behind, Next: IO Threads, Prev: Read Ahead, Up: Performance Translators - -4.4.2 Write Behind ------------------- - - type performance/write-behind - - The write-behind translator improves the latency of a write -operation. It does this by relegating the write operation to the -background and returning to the application even as the write is in -progress. Using the write-behind translator, successive write requests -can be pipelined. This mode of write-behind operation is best used on -the client side, to enable decreased write latency for the application. - - The write-behind translator can also aggregate write requests. If the -`aggregate-size' option is specified, then successive writes up to that -size are accumulated and written in a single operation. This mode of -operation is best used on the server side, as this will decrease the -disk's head movement when multiple files are being written to in -parallel. - - The `aggregate-size' option has a default value of 128KB. Although -this works well for most users, you should always experiment with -different values to determine the one that will deliver maximum -performance. This is because the performance of write-behind depends on -your interconnect, size of RAM, and the work load. - -`aggregate-size <n> (128KB)' - Amount of data to accumulate before doing a write - -`flush-behind [on|yes|off|no] (off|no)' - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: IO Threads, Next: IO Cache, Prev: Write Behind, Up: Performance Translators - -4.4.3 IO Threads ----------------- - - type performance/io-threads - - The IO threads translator is intended to increase the responsiveness -of the server to metadata operations by doing file I/O (read, write) in -a background thread. Since the GlusterFS server is single-threaded, -using the IO threads translator can significantly improve performance. -This translator is best used on the server side, loaded just below the -server protocol translator. - - IO threads operates by handing out read and write requests to a -separate thread. The total number of threads in existence at a time is -constant, and configurable. - -`thread-count <n> (1)' - Number of threads to use. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: IO Cache, Next: Booster, Prev: IO Threads, Up: Performance Translators - -4.4.4 IO Cache --------------- - - type performance/io-cache - - The IO cache translator caches data that has been read. This is -useful if many applications read the same data multiple times, and if -reads are much more frequent than writes (for example, IO caching may be -useful in a web hosting environment, where most clients will simply -read some files and only a few will write to them). - - The IO cache translator reads data from its child in `page-size' -chunks. It caches data up to `cache-size' bytes. The cache is -maintained as a prioritized least-recently-used (LRU) list, with -priorities determined by user-specified patterns to match filenames. - - When the IO cache translator detects a write operation, the cache -for that file is flushed. - - The IO cache translator periodically verifies the consistency of -cached data, using the modification times on the files. The -verification timeout is configurable. - -`page-size <n> (128KB)' - Size of a page. - -`cache-size (n) (32MB)' - Total amount of data to be cached. - -`force-revalidate-timeout <n> (1)' - Timeout to force a cache consistency verification, in seconds. - -`priority <pattern> (*:0)' - Filename patterns listed in order of priority. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Booster, Prev: IO Cache, Up: Performance Translators - -4.4.5 Booster -------------- - - type performance/booster - - The booster translator gives applications a faster path to -communicate read and write requests to GlusterFS. Normally, all -requests to GlusterFS from applications go through FUSE, as indicated -in *note Filesystems in Userspace::. Using the booster translator in -conjunction with the GlusterFS booster shared library, an application -can bypass the FUSE path and send read/write requests directly to the -GlusterFS client process. - - The booster mechanism consists of two parts: the booster translator, -and the booster shared library. The booster translator is meant to be -loaded on the client side, usually at the root of the translator tree. -The booster shared library should be `LD_PRELOAD'ed with the -application. - - The booster translator when loaded opens a Unix domain socket and -listens for read/write requests on it. The booster shared library -intercepts read and write system calls and sends the requests to the -GlusterFS process directly using the Unix domain socket, bypassing FUSE. -This leads to superior performance. - - Once you've loaded the booster translator in your volume -specification file, you can start your application as: - - $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/bin/glusterfs-booster.so your_app - - The booster translator accepts no options. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Features Translators, Next: Miscellaneous Translators, Prev: Performance Translators, Up: Translators - -4.5 Features Translators -======================== - -* Menu: - -* POSIX Locks:: -* Fixed ID:: - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: POSIX Locks, Next: Fixed ID, Up: Features Translators - -4.5.1 POSIX Locks ------------------ - - type features/posix-locks - - This translator provides storage independent POSIX record locking -support (`fcntl' locking). Typically you'll want to load this on the -server side, just above the POSIX storage translator. Using this -translator you can get both advisory locking and mandatory locking -support. It also handles `flock()' locks properly. - - Caveat: Consider a file that does not have its mandatory locking bits -(+setgid, -group execution) turned on. Assume that this file is now -opened by a process on a client that has the write-behind xlator -loaded. The write-behind xlator does not cache anything for files which -have mandatory locking enabled, to avoid incoherence. Let's say that -mandatory locking is now enabled on this file through another client. -The former client will not know about this change, and write-behind may -erroneously report a write as being successful when in fact it would -fail due to the region it is writing to being locked. - - There seems to be no easy way to fix this. To work around this -problem, it is recommended that you never enable the mandatory bits on -a file while it is open. - -`mandatory [on|off] (on)' - Turns mandatory locking on. - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Fixed ID, Prev: POSIX Locks, Up: Features Translators - -4.5.2 Fixed ID --------------- - - type features/fixed-id - - The fixed ID translator makes all filesystem requests from the client -to appear to be coming from a fixed, specified UID/GID, regardless of -which user actually initiated the request. - -`fixed-uid <n> [if not set, not used]' - The UID to send to the server - -`fixed-gid <n> [if not set, not used]' - The GID to send to the server - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Miscellaneous Translators, Prev: Features Translators, Up: Translators - -4.6 Miscellaneous Translators -============================= - -* Menu: - -* ROT-13:: -* Trace:: - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: ROT-13, Next: Trace, Up: Miscellaneous Translators - -4.6.1 ROT-13 ------------- - - type encryption/rot-13 - - ROT-13 is a toy translator that can "encrypt" and "decrypt" file -contents using the ROT-13 algorithm. 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One at file level (using -unify translator) and other at block level (using stripe translator). -Striped I/O is good for files that are potentially large and require -high parallel throughput (for example, a single file of 400GB being -accessed by 100s and 1000s of systems simultaneously and randomly). For -most of the cases, file level scheduling works best. - - In the real world, it is desirable to mix file level and block level -scheduling on a single storage volume. Alternatively users can choose -to have two separate volumes and hence two mount points, but the -applications may demand a single storage system to host both. - - This document explains how to mix file level scheduling with stripe. - -5.1.2 Configuration Brief -------------------------- - -This setup demonstrates how users can configure unify translator with -appropriate I/O scheduler for file level scheduling and strip for only -matching patterns. This way, GlusterFS chooses appropriate I/O profile -and knows how to efficiently handle both the types of data. - - A simple technique to achieve this effect is to create a stripe set -of unify and stripe blocks, where unify is the first sub-volume. Files -that do not match the stripe policy passed on to first unify sub-volume -and inturn scheduled arcoss the cluster using its file level I/O -scheduler. - - 5.1.3 Preparing GlusterFS Envoronment -------------------------------------- - -Create the directories /export/namespace, /export/unify and -/export/stripe on all the storage bricks. - - Place the following server and client volume spec file under -/etc/glusterfs (or appropriate installed path) and replace the IP -addresses / access control fields to match your environment. - - ## file: /etc/glusterfs/glusterfsd.vol - volume posix-unify - type storage/posix - option directory /export/for-unify - end-volume - - volume posix-stripe - type storage/posix - option directory /export/for-stripe - end-volume - - volume posix-namespace - type storage/posix - option directory /export/for-namespace - end-volume - - volume server - type protocol/server - option transport-type tcp - option auth.addr.posix-unify.allow 192.168.1.* - option auth.addr.posix-stripe.allow 192.168.1.* - option auth.addr.posix-namespace.allow 192.168.1.* - subvolumes posix-unify posix-stripe posix-namespace - end-volume - - ## file: /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs.vol - volume client-namespace - type protocol/client - option transport-type tcp - option remote-host 192.168.1.1 - option remote-subvolume posix-namespace - end-volume - - volume client-unify-1 - type protocol/client - option transport-type tcp - option remote-host 192.168.1.1 - option remote-subvolume posix-unify - end-volume - - volume client-unify-2 - type protocol/client - option transport-type tcp - option remote-host 192.168.1.2 - option remote-subvolume posix-unify - end-volume - - volume client-unify-3 - type protocol/client - option transport-type tcp - option remote-host 192.168.1.3 - option remote-subvolume posix-unify - end-volume - - volume client-unify-4 - type protocol/client - option transport-type tcp - option remote-host 192.168.1.4 - option remote-subvolume posix-unify - end-volume - - volume client-stripe-1 - type protocol/client - option transport-type tcp - option remote-host 192.168.1.1 - option remote-subvolume posix-stripe - end-volume - - volume client-stripe-2 - type protocol/client - option transport-type tcp - option remote-host 192.168.1.2 - option remote-subvolume posix-stripe - end-volume - - volume client-stripe-3 - type protocol/client - option transport-type tcp - option remote-host 192.168.1.3 - option remote-subvolume posix-stripe - end-volume - - volume client-stripe-4 - type protocol/client - option transport-type tcp - option remote-host 192.168.1.4 - option remote-subvolume posix-stripe - end-volume - - volume unify - type cluster/unify - option scheduler rr - subvolumes cluster-unify-1 cluster-unify-2 cluster-unify-3 cluster-unify-4 - end-volume - - volume stripe - type cluster/stripe - option block-size *.img:2MB # All files ending with .img are striped with 2MB stripe block size. - subvolumes unify cluster-stripe-1 cluster-stripe-2 cluster-stripe-3 cluster-stripe-4 - end-volume - - Bring up the Storage - - Starting GlusterFS Server: If you have installed through binary -package, you can start the service through init.d startup script. If -not: - - [root@server]# glusterfsd - - Mounting GlusterFS Volumes: - - [root@client]# glusterfs -s [BRICK-IP-ADDRESS] /mnt/cluster - - Improving upon this Setup - - Infiniband Verbs RDMA transport is much faster than TCP/IP GigE -transport. - - Use of performance translators such as read-ahead, write-behind, -io-cache, io-threads, booster is recommended. - - Replace round-robin (rr) scheduler with ALU to handle more dynamic -storage environments. - - ---------- Footnotes ---------- - - (1) -http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Mixing_Striped_and_Regular_Files - - -File: user-guide.info, Node: Troubleshooting, Next: GNU Free Documentation Licence, Prev: Usage Scenarios, Up: Top - -6 Troubleshooting -***************** - -This chapter is a general troubleshooting guide to GlusterFS. It lists -common GlusterFS server and client error messages, debugging hints, and -concludes with the suggested procedure to report bugs in GlusterFS. - -6.1 GlusterFS error messages -============================ - -6.1.1 Server errors -------------------- - - glusterfsd: FATAL: could not open specfile: - '/etc/glusterfs/glusterfsd.vol' - - The GlusterFS server expects the volume specification file to be at -`/etc/glusterfs/glusterfsd.vol'. The example specification file will be -installed as `/etc/glusterfs/glusterfsd.vol.sample'. You need to edit -it and rename it, or provide a different specification file using the -`--spec-file' command line option (See *note Server::). - - gf_log_init: failed to open logfile "/usr/var/log/glusterfs/glusterfsd.log" - (Permission denied) - - You don't have permission to create files in the -`/usr/var/log/glusterfs' directory. Make sure you are running GlusterFS -as root. Alternatively, specify a different path for the log file using -the `--log-file' option (See *note Server::). - -6.1.2 Client errors -------------------- - - fusermount: failed to access mountpoint /mnt: - Transport endpoint is not connected - - A previous failed (or hung) mount of GlusterFS is preventing it from -being mounted again in the same location. The fix is to do: - - # umount /mnt - - and try mounting again. - - *"Transport endpoint is not connected".* - - If you get this error when you try a command such as `ls' or `cat', -it means the GlusterFS mount did not succeed. Try running GlusterFS in -`DEBUG' logging level and study the log messages to discover the cause. - - *"Connect to server failed", "SERVER-ADDRESS: Connection refused".* - - GluserFS Server is not running or dead. Check your network -connections and firewall settings. To check if the server is reachable, -try: - - telnet IP-ADDRESS 24007 - - If the server is accessible, your `telnet' command should connect and -block. If not you will see an error message such as `telnet: Unable to -connect to remote host: Connection refused'. 24007 is the default -GlusterFS port. If you have changed it, then use the corresponding port -instead. - - gf_log_init: failed to open logfile "/usr/var/log/glusterfs/glusterfs.log" - (Permission denied) - - You don't have permission to create files in the -`/usr/var/log/glusterfs' directory. Make sure you are running GlusterFS -as root. Alternatively, specify a different path for the log file using -the `--log-file' option (See *note Client::). - -6.2 FUSE error messages -======================= - -`modprobe fuse' fails with: "Unknown symbol in module, or unknown -parameter". - - If you are using fuse-2.6.x on Redhat Enterprise Linux Work Station 4 -and Advanced Server 4 with 2.6.9-42.ELlargesmp, 2.6.9-42.ELsmp, -2.6.9-42.EL kernels and get this error while loading FUSE kernel -module, you need to apply the following patch. - - For fuse-2.6.2: - -<http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/fuse/fuse-2.6.2-rhel-build.patch> - - For fuse-2.6.3: - -<http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/fuse/fuse-2.6.3-rhel-build.patch> - -6.3 AppArmour and GlusterFS -=========================== - -Under OpenSuSE GNU/Linux, the AppArmour security feature does not allow -GlusterFS to create temporary files or network socket connections even -while running as root. You will see error messages like `Unable to open -log file: Operation not permitted' or `Connection refused'. Disabling -AppArmour using YaST or properly configuring AppArmour to recognize -`glusterfsd' or `glusterfs'/`fusermount' should solve the problem. - -6.4 Reporting a bug -=================== - -If you encounter a bug in GlusterFS, please follow the below guidelines -when you report it to the mailing list. Be sure to report it! User -feedback is crucial to the health of the project and we value it highly. - -6.4.1 General instructions --------------------------- - -When running GlusterFS in a non-production environment, be sure to -build it with the following command: - - $ make CFLAGS='-g -O0 -DDEBUG' - - This includes debugging information which will be helpful in getting -backtraces (see below) and also disable optimization. Enabling -optimization can result in incorrect line numbers being reported to gdb. - -6.4.2 Volume specification files --------------------------------- - -Attach all relevant server and client spec files you were using when -you encountered the bug. Also tell us details of your setup, i.e., how -many clients and how many servers. - -6.4.3 Log files ---------------- - -Set the loglevel of your client and server programs to DEBUG (by -passing the -L DEBUG option) and attach the log files with your bug -report. Obviously, if only the client is failing (for example), you -only need to send us the client log file. - -6.4.4 Backtrace ---------------- - -If GlusterFS has encountered a segmentation fault or has crashed for -some other reason, include the backtrace with the bug report. 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