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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">One of the positive outcomes of the community contest (http://gluster.org/contest/ ->ends tomorrow!) is a series of helpful HOWTO articles designed for those looking to tune GlusterFS
for better performance, or for those looking to get up to speed faster on how to use.<br>
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These articles and posts originated on <a href="http://community.gluster.org/" target="_blank">
http://community.gluster.org/</a> -<br>
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To see the entire list of articles - <a href="http://www.gluster.com/tag/thestraighttech/" target="_blank">
http://www.gluster.com/tag/thestraighttech/</a> <br>
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Here are the individual articles:<br>
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<h3 id="post-5037"><a href="http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/28/thestraighttech-mount-glusterfs-at-boot-time/">TheStraightTech: Mount GlusterFS at Boot Time on Ubuntu</a></h3>
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<span class="weekday">Wednesday<span class="weekday-comma">,</span></span> <span class="month">
September</span> <span class="day">28<span class="day-suffix">th</span><span class="day-comma">,</span></span>
<span class="year">2011</span>
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<p>Some Ubuntu users have reported errors mounting GlusterFS volumes at boot time due to the order that the Upstart system init daemon starts services. Gluster community member
<a href="http://community.gluster.org/u/semiosis/" target="_blank">Semiosis</a> <a href="http://community.gluster.org/p/howto-mount-glusterfs-volumes-on-servers-at-boot-time-ubuntu/" target="_blank">
posted a solution</a></p>
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<h3 id="post-5022"><a href="http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/27/thestraighttech-targeted-self-heal-repairing-less-than-the-whole-volume/">TheStraightTech: Targeted Self-heal (repairing less than the whole volume)</a></h3>
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<span class="weekday">Tuesday<span class="weekday-comma">,</span></span> <span class="month">
September</span> <span class="day">27<span class="day-suffix">th</span><span class="day-comma">,</span></span>
<span class="year">2011</span>
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There are a variety of strategies one can employ to improve the performance of GlusterFS self-heal procedures. Gluster community member
<a href="http://community.gluster.org/u/semiosis/" target="_blank">Semiosis</a> weighs in with one he dubs
<a href="http://community.gluster.org/p/howto-targeted-self-heal-repairing-less-than-the-whole-volume/" target="_blank">
targeted self-heal</a></li><li>
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<h3 id="post-5020"><a href="http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/27/thestraighttech-how-are-distribution-and-replication-related/">TheStraightTech: How are Distribution and Replication Related?</a></h3>
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<span class="weekday">Tuesday<span class="weekday-comma">,</span></span> <span class="month">
September</span> <span class="day">27<span class="day-suffix">th</span><span class="day-comma">,</span></span>
<span class="year">2011</span>
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<p>If you use GlusterFS, you know that there are several types of volumes you can create. If you’ve ever wondered what the difference between replicated and distributed volumes is in GlusterFS, or how they’re related, you’ll like
<a href="http://community.gluster.org/p/how-are-distribution-and-replication-related/" target="_blank">
this recent post</a> by <a href="http://pl.atyp.us/" target="_blank">Jeff Darcy</a>,
<a href="http://cloudfs.org/" target="_blank">HekaFS</a> creator</p>
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<h3 id="post-5010"><a href="http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/26/thestraighttech-glusterfs-over-nfs-virtual-ip-migration-and-replication/">TheStraightTech: GlusterFS Over NFS, Virtual IP Migration, and Replication</a></h3>
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<span class="weekday">Monday<span class="weekday-comma">,</span></span> <span class="month">
September</span> <span class="day">26<span class="day-suffix">th</span><span class="day-comma">,</span></span>
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Community linchpin <a href="http://community.gluster.org/u/joejulian/" target="_blank">
Jjulian</a> has posted a helpful HOWTO on <a href="http://community.gluster.org/p/how-glusterfs-nfs-works-when-migrating-a-virtual-ip-in-a-replicated-volume/" target="_blank">
<em>How GlusterFS NFS works when migrating a virtual IP in a replicated volume</em></a></li><li>
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<h3 id="post-4961"><a href="http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/14/glusterfs-howto-nfs-performance-with-fuse-client-redundancy/">GlusterFS HOWTO: NFS Performance with FUSE Client Redundancy</a></h3>
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<span class="weekday">Wednesday<span class="weekday-comma">,</span></span> <span class="month">
September</span> <span class="day">14<span class="day-suffix">th</span><span class="day-comma">,</span></span>
<span class="year">2011</span>
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There’s another great post on the <a href="http://community.gluster.org/" target="_blank">
community Q&A site</a> – <a href="http://community.gluster.org/p/nfs-performance-with-fuse-client-redundancy/" target="_blank">
this one about NFS performance</a>, excessive load times for PHP-based web sites, and the Fuse client. This was written by
<a href="http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/User:Jjulian" target="_blank">
Joe Julian</a>, our resident IRC chairman and all-around Gluster soup stirrer</li><li>
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<h3 id="post-4959"><a href="http://www.gluster.com/2011/09/14/linux-kernel-tuning-for-glusterfs/">Linux Kernel Tuning for GlusterFS</a></h3>
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<span class="weekday">Wednesday<span class="weekday-comma">,</span></span> <span class="month">
September</span> <span class="day">14<span class="day-suffix">th</span><span class="day-comma">,</span></span>
<span class="year">2011</span>
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One of our support engineer gurus, Harsha, has published a very detailed post on tuning parameters for the Linux kernel that may impact your GlusterFS performance. Here’s his introduction</li></ul>
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