<head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OK, if you want to be cool, use an IPv6 multicast group :)</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">M.</div> <p style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-- <br>Michael Brown | `One of the main causes of the fall of<br>Systems Consultant | the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero,<br>Net Direct Inc. | they had no way to indicate successful<br>☎: +1 519 883 1172 x5106 | termination of their C programs.' - Firth<br></p> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>James</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Friday, May 10, 2013 18:54 PM</div><div><b>To: </b>mozes@ksu.edu</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>James</div><div><b>Cc: </b>gluster-users@gluster.org</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Gluster-users] Newbee Question: GlusterFS on Compute Cluster?</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style="">On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Adam Tygart <mozes@k-state.edu> wrote:<br>> Randy,<br>><br>> On my compute cluster we use round-robin dns (for HA of the volume<br>> definition) and mount the GlusterFS volume via the FUSE (native) client. All<br>> of the I/O would go directly to the nodes, rather than through an<br>> intermediary (NFS) server.<br>I've mentioned this once before, but in my opinion, using something<br>like vrrp (eg: keepalived) is better than using rr-dns. Also it's<br>cooler.<br><br>James<br><br>><br>> --<br>> Adam Tygart<br>> Beocat Sysadmin<br>> www.beocat.cis.ksu.edu<br>><br>><br>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Bradley, Randy <Randy.Bradley@ars.usda.gov><br>> wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>> I've got a 24 node compute cluster. Each node has one extra terabyte<br>>> drive. It seemed reasonable to install Gluster on each of the compute nodes<br>>> and the head node. I created a volume from the head node:<br>>><br>>> gluster volume create gv1 rep 2 transport tcp compute000:/export/brick1<br>>> compute001:/export/brick1 compute002:/export/brick1<br>>> compute003:/export/brick1 compute004:/export/brick1<br>>> compute005:/export/brick1 compute006:/export/brick1<br>>> compute007:/export/brick1 compute008:/export/brick1<br>>> compute009:/export/brick1 compute010:/export/brick1<br>>> compute011:/export/brick1 compute012:/export/brick1<br>>> compute013:/export/brick1 compute014:/export/brick1<br>>> compute015:/export/brick1 compute016:/export/brick1<br>>> compute017:/export/brick1 compute018:/export/brick1<br>>> compute019:/export/brick1 compute020:/export/brick1<br>>> compute021:/export/brick1 compute022:/export/brick1<br>>> compute023:/export/brick1<br>>><br>>> And then I mounted the volume on the head node. So far, so good. Apx. 10<br>>> TB available.<br>>><br>>> Now I would like each compute node to be able to access files on this<br>>> volume. Would this be done by NFS mount from the head node to the compute<br>>> nodes or is there a better way?<br>>><br>>><br>>> Thanks,<br>>><br>>> Randy<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely<br>>> for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message<br>>> or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law<br>>> and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. 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