Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 10.04
 

http://static.howtoforge.com/images/teaser/ubuntu.gifCreating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 10.04

This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Ubuntu 10.04. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.



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