In this tutorial, I will guide you through the process of installing GlusterFS on MXLinux Latest. GlusterFS is a distributed network file system that can scale out in size by adding more storage servers.
Before starting, ensure that you have administrative privileges on the MXLinux Latest system as we will be installing a system-level software. You will also need a stable and reliable internet connection to download the necessary packages.
First, we need to install some dependencies that are required to build and run GlusterFS on the system. Open the terminal on your MXLinux Latest and run the following command to update the package repositories:
sudo apt-get update
Once the update process is completed successfully, run the below command to install the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install -y glusterfs-server glusterfs-client attr
This command will download and install the required packages for GlusterFS, namely glusterfs-server, glusterfs-client, and attr.
After the dependencies are installed, you need to configure GlusterFS. For this, we will create a volume that will store the data across multiple servers. For demonstration purposes, we will create a distributed-replicated volume across two servers.
On the first server, open the terminal and execute the following commands:
sudo gluster peer probe <second-server-ip>
sudo gluster volume create <vol-name> replica 2 <server-1:/data/dir> <server-2:/data/dir> force
sudo gluster volume start <vol-name>
Replace the values in the above commands with your second server IP, volume name (vol-name), directory path (/data/dir) on each server, and ensure that the ports 24007 and 24008 are open on both servers.
For Example:
sudo gluster peer probe 192.168.1.2
sudo gluster volume create gfs_volumes replica 2 192.168.1.1:/data/dir 192.168.1.2:/data/dir force
sudo gluster volume start gfs_volumes
This command will create and start a GlusterFS volume named gfs_volumes.
After executing the above command on the first server, do the same steps on the second server.
Now that we have created and started the volume, we need to mount it on the MXLinux Latest system where we want to use it.
For this, create a directory where you want to mount the volume. In this example, we create a /mnt/gfs directory.
sudo mkdir /mnt/gfs
Next, mount the volume using the below command:
sudo mount -t glusterfs <server-1|server-2>:/<vol-name> /mnt/gfs/
Replace <server-1|server-2> with any one server IP, <vol-name> with the name of the GlusterFS volume you created in step 2.
For Example:
sudo mount -t glusterfs 192.168.1.1:/gfs_volumes /mnt/gfs/
The above command will mount the gfs_volumes volume on the /mnt/gfs/ directory.
That's it! Now you can use the GlusterFS volume on your MXLinux Latest system. You can repeat step 3 to mount the GlusterFS Volume on other systems on the network.
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