GlusterFS is an open-source scalable distributed filesystem that is able to grow to petabytes and beyond in size. More information can be found on Gluster's homepage.
This driver enables use of GlusterFS in a similar fashion as the NFS driver. It supports basic volume operations, and like NFS, does not support snapshot/clone.
![[Note]](../common/images/admon/note.png) | Note |
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You must use a Linux kernel of version 3.4 or greater (or version 2.6.32 or greater in RHEL/CentOS 6.3+) when working with Gluster-based volumes. See Bug 1177103 for more information. |
To use Cinder with GlusterFS, first set the
volume_driver in
cinder.conf:
volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.glusterfs.GlusterfsDriver
The following table contains the configuration options supported by the GlusterFS driver.
| Configuration option=Default value | Description |
| glusterfs_disk_util=df | (StrOpt) Use du or df for free space calculation |
| glusterfs_mount_point_base=$state_path/mnt | (StrOpt) Base dir containing mount points for gluster shares. |
| glusterfs_qcow2_volumes=False | (BoolOpt) Create volumes as QCOW2 files rather than raw files. |
| glusterfs_shares_config=/etc/cinder/glusterfs_shares | (StrOpt) File with the list of available gluster shares |
| glusterfs_sparsed_volumes=True | (BoolOpt) Create volumes as sparsed files which take no space.If set to False volume is created as regular file.In such case volume creation takes a lot of time. |
