Aleynikov,<br><br>Find replies inline.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Aleynikov, Serge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Serge.Aleynikov@gs.com">Serge.Aleynikov@gs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi,</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">I am new to this list, and would like to find out if GlusterFS can serve the following need.</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">I have N servers running services that log to local disk and I need the content of these local logs to be replicated in "close-to-real-time" to some central storage to be accessible by other tools.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Can I use GlusterFS for this purpose? If so, could you point me to a sample configuration setup?</font>
</p></div></blockquote><div>Yes, you can use.<br><br>Run glusterfs server on central storage node. with the following spec file<br><br>volume storage<br> type storage/posix<br> option directory <export-directory><br>
end-volume<br><br>volume server<br> type protocol/server<br> option transport-type <tcp-or-ibverbs><br> option auth.addr.storage.allow <ipaddress-or-username><br> subvolumes storage<br>end-volume<br>
<br>On the machines where your log files are updated, mount glusterfs using the following spec:<br><br>volume client<br> type protoco/client<br> option remote-host <ipaddress><br> option remote-subvolume storage<br>
end-volume<br><br>volume local-storage<br> type storage/posix<br> option directory <local-directory><br>end-volume<br><br>volume afr<br> type cluster/afr<br> subvolumes local-storage client<br>end-volume<br>
<br>And point your logging process to log on mounted directory.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><p></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks.</font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">Serge</font>
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