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Gluster 3.1: Editing a Volume

From GlusterDocumentation

You can edit a volume, as required, including configuring the IP addresses of clients that can access the volume, selecting the users who can access the volume, and specifying the file systems through which the volume can be accessed.

Fields

The following table describes the information displayed when editing a volume:

Volume name	The name of the volume.
Volume type	The type of the volume, from among the following: Plain Distribute - Specifies a volume that is not mirrored or striped Distributed Mirror - Specifies a mirrored volume. All files are replicated twice. Note that you need at least two servers to activate this feature. Distributed Stripe - Specifies a striped volume. Each file is spread across four servers to share the load during file access. Note that striping typically increases performance only in High Performance Computing (HPC)/Supercomputing environments where hundreds or thousands of clients access a single large file (typically much larger than the server's memory). You need a minimum of four servers is to activate this feature.
Transport type	The type of the transport, from among the following: Ethernet Infiniband
Storage servers	The servers that comprise the volume.
Exported as	The file systems through which the volume can be accessed, including the following: GlusterFS Native - Designed for scalability and performance, GlusterFS Native is both intelligent and efficient in file access and is fully POSIX compliant so no modification to the application code is required. However, GlusterFS Native only works on FUSE-capable kernels such as Linux. A small userspace GlusterFS client needs to be installed on the system in order to natively mount volumes. NFS - Distributed NFSv3 TCP support offers scalability without imposing additional software requirements on the client. Most Unix and GNU/Linux operating systems support the NFSv3 TCP protocol. CIFS - Ideal for general-purpose file storage and archival in Windows environments (Microsoft operating systems have built-in CIFS client support). WebDAV - A standards-based, distributed, object storage mechanism using HTTP as the underlying transport.
User name	(CIFS only) The user name to use from Windows clients to connect to the volume.
Password	(CIFS only) The password associated with the user name to use from Windows clients to connect to the volume.
Confirm password	(CIFS only) Confirm the above password.
Authentication Type IP-Based	The IP addresses of clients that can access the volume, specified as a comma-separated list (with wildcards). An asterisk (*) specifies all IP addresses.
User List	The list of users that can access the volume.

To edit a volume

1. Click the Volumes tab.
2. Select a volume in the list.
3. Click Edit Volume. The Edit Volume dialog appears.
4. Select the file systems that the volume should be exported as. You can select GlusterFS Native, NFS, CIFS, and WebDAV.
5. (CIFS only) Specify the user name and password to use from Windows clients to connect to the volume.
6. Specify the IP-based authentication as a comma-separated list of IP addresses. You can use wildcards to specify ranges of addresses. Typing an asterisk (*) specifies all IP addresses.
7. Select the users that can access the volume from the User List.
8. Click Update.