GlusterFS on MAC OS X

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NOTE: Tested only over Leopard releases (10.5.x)

Over Mac OS X, Both glusterfs server side, and client (mount point) are tested.

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Installing

MacFUSE is required if one wants to use GlusterFS mount-point over MacOS X. without it, GlusterFS can work as server-only mode, where a OS X can export portion of its disk.

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MacFUSE (Optional)

MacFUSE is a MAC OSX port of the Filesystems in Userspace for Linux.

Just installing latest MacFUSE release (.dmg format) from MacFUSE home page should work fine.

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MacFUSE Links

Note that Basic version of MacFUSE required for GlusterFS is MacFUSE 2.0

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GlusterFS (Mandatory)

Follow the below steps to get GlusterFS getting compiled 

bash# curl -O http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/2.0/LATEST/glusterfs-2.0.1.tar.gz

If wget is not installed, you can download the tarball from the browser too. 

bash# tar -xzf glusterfs-2.0.1.tar.gz
bash# cd glusterfs-2.0.1
bash# ./configure 
bash# make 
bash# make install

You are done with Installation procedure.

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MacOS X specific options of GlusterFS

There is an extra option which is specific to Mac OS X.

  • --non-local : This option is used for mounting GlusterFS without '-o local' option for MacFuse, which can be used to mount glusterfs just as 'Servers', but not as 'Devices'. Suitable for remotely using glusterfs mount, for example a streaming server.
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NOTE:

  • Tested iozone, dbench (Mac OS X server and GNU/Linux client), bonnie++ with '-n 0'
  • Tested with GNU/Linux server and MacFUSE as client, also tested exporting volumes from MacOSX.
  • You need not have to install versions for MacFUSE everytime you want to upgrade GlusterFS. Its a one time installation only.
  • Any issues including build, usage and bugs please write to gluster-devel@nongnu.org.
  • Supported from GlusterFS release 2.0.0rc1 and later.
  • It is reported that the build with gcc-4.2 fails (confirmation needed). But you can build glusterfs with gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465) and it works fine.
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