GlusterFS is an open source distributed file system that allows administrators to build large-scale storage systems on commodity hardware. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of GlusterFS on nixOS Latest.
Before installing GlusterFS on your nixOS Latest machine, make sure you have the following prerequisite installed:
Log in to your nixOS machine with sudo privileges.
Update the system package manager to ensure the latest security patches are installed by running the following command:
$ sudo nix-channel --update
$ sudo nix-env -iA nixos.glusterfs
$ which glusterd gluster glusterfs glusterfsd
When configuring the cluster, you need to perform the following steps on all nodes.
First, create a GlusterFS volume on your primary node by running the command:
$ sudo gluster volume create <volume-name> <node1>:/<path1> <node2>:/<path2> force
Where<volume-name> is the name of the GlusterFS volume you want to create, <node1> is the hostname or IP address of the primary node, and <path1> is the directory path for the volume on the primary node.
$ sudo gluster volume start <volume-name>
$ sudo gluster volume info
To mount the GlusterFS volume on your client machine, you need to install the GlusterFS client on the machine.
Run the following command to install the GlusterFS client:
$ sudo nix-env -iA nixos.glusterfsClient
$ sudo mount -t glusterfs <node1>:<volume-name> <mount-directory>
Where <node1> is the hostname or IP address of the primary node and <mount-directory> is the directory path on the client machine where you want to mount the volume.
$ df -h
At this point, you should have successfully installed and configured GlusterFS on nixOS Latest. You can now start creating distributed file systems using GlusterFS.
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