Gluster Filesystem

How to deploy a glusterfs server

Requirements:

• Linux server, with a kernel version better than 5.6
  • This guide will use Debian 10
• A client server, like another linux server, or a PC
  • This guide will assume Debian 10
• VPN running on server and host
  • Wireguard is assumed here, but tools like sstunnel work, too

The server is assumed to be the machine interfacing with the original physical drive.

Installation

## Server will need both
apt install glusterfs-server glusterfs-client

## Client
apt install glusterfs-client

Server volume setup

#
# $volume_name the common label name of the drive
# $server_address the VPN interface
# $share_directory the directory to share over the network
#
gluster volume create $volume_name $server_address:$share_directory force

gluster volume start $volume_name

gluster volume status $volume_name

#
##
gluster volume create dropbox 10.8.0.1:/mnt/sda1 force

gluster volume start dropbox

gluster volume status dropbox

Client volume setup

mount -t glusterfs $server_address:$volume_name $share_directory

mount -t glusterfs 10.8.0.1:dropbox /Volumes/my-dropbox

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