NFS Like Standalone Storage Server

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The following is a simple volume specification to quickly get a functional setup. Once through, performance translators such as io-cache, write-behind, read-ahead, io-threads and so on, can be explored. AFR (automatic file replication) can easily be added to setup a high-availability NFS.

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Server Volfile

# file: /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-server.vol
volume posix
  type storage/posix
  option directory /data/export
end-volume

volume locks
  type features/locks
  option mandatory-locks on
  subvolumes posix
end-volume

volume brick
  type performance/io-threads
  option thread-count 8
  subvolumes locks
end-volume

volume server
  type protocol/server
  option transport-type tcp
  option auth.addr.brick.allow 192.168.* # Edit and add list of allowed clients comma separated IP addrs(names) here
  subvolumes brick
end-volume

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Client Volfile

# file: /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol
volume remote
  type protocol/client
  option transport-type tcp
  option remote-host storage.example.com # can be IP or hostname
  option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume

volume writebehind
  type performance/write-behind
  option window-size 4MB
  subvolumes remote
end-volume

volume cache
  type performance/io-cache
  option cache-size 512MB
  subvolumes writebehind
end-volume

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