Unsetting GlusterFS volume options

The GlusterFS documentation mentions how to set volume options, but there’s no obvious way to unset them. In the case that you’ve set something like performance.cache-size and you just want to return to the defaults, you need to reset the setting: [root@storage1 ~]# gluster volume reset homes performance.cache-size reset volume successful Hopefully some SEO-fu will […]

Troubleshooting GlusterFS performance issues

I’m in the middle of a new GlusterFS deployment for our research computing infrastructure (storage of Bioinformatics and GIS data). At first I was just happy to see the huge size of my /home partition when I did df -h, but I quickly found that performance wasn’t quite what I was expecting and I started […]

CentOS 6.4 With SELinux Enforcing Denies Mount Action to glusterd

Update: As of March 13, 2013 there is an updated SELinux policy package which fixes this error. The versions are: selinux-policy-3.7.19-195.el6_4.3.noarch and selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6_4.3.noarch Everything’s going great deploying a new GlusterFS-based NAS at work, when all of a sudden we hit a snag: I updated one of my client machines from CentOS 6.3 → 6.4, and now SELinux […]