Em 10-05-2013 19:38, Bradley, Randy escreveu: > > I've got a 24 node compute cluster. Each node has one extra terabyte > drive. It seemed reasonable to install Gluster on each of the compute > nodes and the head node. I created a volume from the head node: > > gluster volume create gv1 rep 2 transport tcp compute000:/export/brick1 > compute001:/export/brick1 compute002:/export/brick1 > compute003:/export/brick1 compute004:/export/brick1 > compute005:/export/brick1 compute006:/export/brick1 > compute007:/export/brick1 compute008:/export/brick1 > compute009:/export/brick1 compute010:/export/brick1 > compute011:/export/brick1 compute012:/export/brick1 > compute013:/export/brick1 compute014:/export/brick1 > compute015:/export/brick1 compute016:/export/brick1 > compute017:/export/brick1 compute018:/export/brick1 > compute019:/export/brick1 compute020:/export/brick1 > compute021:/export/brick1 compute022:/export/brick1 > compute023:/export/brick1 > > And then I mounted the volume on the head node. So far, so good. Apx. 10 > TB available. > > Now I would like each compute node to be able to access files on this > volume. Would this be done by NFS mount from the head node to the > compute nodes or is there a better way? Back in the days of 3.0.x ( ~ 3 years ago ) I made a 'distributed scratch' in a scenario just like yours, Randy. I remember of using gluster's own protocol to access the files, mounting the volume locally.