This is ../../../doc/user-guide/user-guide.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from ../../../doc/user-guide/user-guide.texi. START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * GlusterFS: (user-guide). GlusterFS distributed filesystem user guide END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY This is the user manual for GlusterFS 2.0. Copyright (C) 2007-2010 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".  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) 2007-2010 Gluster, Inc. 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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 () 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* (). You can also find many of the developers on IRC, on the `#gluster' channel on Freenode (). The GlusterFS documentation wiki is also useful: 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 .  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: 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: 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 boundry has been extended upto 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: . 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: . 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)  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- 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//'. 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=' Use the volume file as the volume specification. `-s, --volfile-server=' Server to get volume file from. This option overrides -volfile option. `-l, --log-file=' Specify the path for the log file. `-L, --log-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 for the PID file. `--volfile-id=' 'key' of the volfile to be fetched from server. `--volfile-server-port=' Listening port number of volfile server. `--volfile-server-transport=[socket|ib-verbs]' Transport type to get volfile from server. [default: `socket'] `--xlator-options=' 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] 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=' Use the volume file as the volume specification. `-s, --volfile-server=' Server to get volume file from. This option overrides -volfile option. `-l, --log-file=' Specify the path for the log file. `-L, --log-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 for the PID file. `--volfile-id=' 'key' of the volfile to be fetched from server. `--volfile-server-port=' Listening port number of volfile server. `--volfile-server-transport=[socket|ib-verbs]' Transport type to get volfile from server. [default: `socket'] `--xlator-options=' Add/override a translator option for a volume with specified value. `--volume-name=' Volume name in client spec to use. Defaults to the root volume. FUSE Options `--attribute-timeout=' 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=' 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 refered 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 ' 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 ' 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 ' 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 '  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 (24007)' Server port to connect to. `remote-host *' 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
(0.0.0.0)' The local interface on which the server should listen to requests. Default is to listen on all interfaces. `listen-port (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 (24007)' Server port to connect to. `remote-host *' 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
(0.0.0.0)' The local interface on which the server should listen to requests. Default is to listen on all interfaces. `listen-port (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 (64)' Length of the send queue in datagrams. [Reason to increase/decrease?] `ib-verbs-work-request-recv-count (64)' Length of the receive queue in datagrams. [Reason to increase/decrease?] `ib-verbs-work-request-send-size (128KB)' Size of each datagram that is sent. [Reason to increase/decrease?] `ib-verbs-work-request-recv-size (128KB)' Size of each datagram that is received. [Reason to increase/decrease?] `ib-verbs-port (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 (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 *' 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 (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 (/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..allow ' 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 necesary. 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 * ("disk-usage:write-usage:read-usage:open-files-usage:disk-speed")' `alu.disk-usage.entry-threshold (1GB)' `alu.disk-usage.exit-threshold (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 (1000)' `alu.open-files-usage.exit-threshold (100)' `alu.limits.min-free-disk <%>' `alu.limits.max-open-files ' 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 (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 (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 (10 seconds)' Time between two successive free disk space checks. `nufa.local-volume-name ' 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 *' 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:  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 ') `debug [on|off] (off)' `self-heal [on|off] (on)' `replicate (*:1)' `lock-node (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 : (*:0 no striping)' Distribute files matching `' over the sub-volumes, storing at least `' 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 (256KB)' The unit of data that is pre-fetched. `page-count (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 upto 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 (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 (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 upto `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 (128KB)' Size of a page. `cache-size (n) (32MB)' Total amount of data to be cached. `force-revalidate-timeout (1)' Timeout to force a cache consistency verification, in seconds. `priority (*: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 [if not set, not used]' The UID to send to the server `fixed-gid [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. ROT-13 is a trivial algorithm that rotates each alphabet by thirteen places. Thus, 'A' becomes 'N', 'B' becomes 'O', and 'Z' becomes 'M'. It goes without saying that you shouldn't use this translator if you need _real_ encryption (a future release of GlusterFS will have real encryption translators). `encrypt-write [on|off] (on)' Whether to encrypt on write `decrypt-read [on|off] (on)' Whether to decrypt on read  File: user-guide.info, Node: Trace, Prev: ROT-13, Up: Miscellaneous Translators 4.6.2 Trace ----------- type debug/trace The trace translator is intended for debugging purposes. When loaded, it logs all the system calls received by the server or client (wherever trace is loaded), their arguments, and the results. You must use a GlusterFS log level of DEBUG (See *note Running GlusterFS::) for trace to work. Sample trace output (lines have been wrapped for readability): 2007-10-30 00:08:58 D [trace.c:1579:trace_opendir] trace: callid: 68 (*this=0x8059e40, loc=0x8091984 {path=/iozone3_283, inode=0x8091f00}, fd=0x8091d50) 2007-10-30 00:08:58 D [trace.c:630:trace_opendir_cbk] trace: (*this=0x8059e40, op_ret=4, op_errno=1, fd=0x8091d50) 2007-10-30 00:08:58 D [trace.c:1602:trace_readdir] trace: callid: 69 (*this=0x8059e40, size=4096, offset=0 fd=0x8091d50) 2007-10-30 00:08:58 D [trace.c:215:trace_readdir_cbk] trace: (*this=0x8059e40, op_ret=0, op_errno=0, count=4) 2007-10-30 00:08:58 D [trace.c:1624:trace_closedir] trace: callid: 71 (*this=0x8059e40, *fd=0x8091d50) 2007-10-30 00:08:58 D [trace.c:809:trace_closedir_cbk] trace: (*this=0x8059e40, op_ret=0, op_errno=1)  File: user-guide.info, Node: Usage Scenarios, Next: Troubleshooting, Prev: Translators, Up: Top 5 Usage Scenarios ***************** 5.1 Advanced Striping ===================== This section is based on the Advanced Striping tutorial written by Anand Avati on the GlusterFS wiki (1). 5.1.1 Mixed Storage Requirements -------------------------------- There are two ways of scheduling the I/O. 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: For fuse-2.6.3: 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. You can get the backtrace using the following procedure. Run the GlusterFS client or server inside gdb. $ gdb ./glusterfs (gdb) set args -f client.spec -N -l/path/to/log/file -LDEBUG /mnt/point (gdb) run Now when the process segfaults, you can get the backtrace by typing: (gdb) bt If the GlusterFS process has crashed and dumped a core file (you can find this in / if running as a daemon and in the current directory otherwise), you can do: $ gdb /path/to/glusterfs /path/to/core. and then get the backtrace. If the GlusterFS server or client seems to be hung, then you can get the backtrace by attaching gdb to the process. First get the `PID' of the process (using ps), and then do: $ gdb ./glusterfs Press Ctrl-C to interrupt the process and then generate the backtrace. 6.4.5 Reproducing the bug ------------------------- If the bug is reproducible, please include the steps necessary to do so. If the bug is not reproducible, send us the bug report anyway. 6.4.6 Other information ----------------------- If you think it is relevant, send us also the version of FUSE you're using, the kernel version, platform.  File: user-guide.info, Node: GNU Free Documentation Licence, Next: Index, Prev: Troubleshooting, Up: Top Appendix A GNU Free Documentation Licence ***************************************** Version 1.2, November 2002 Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. 0. 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