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Using GlusterFS On Your Managed Server


You will first need to setup a distributed GlusterFS storage cluster and follow these instructions:
First, we will have to install  EPEL repository:
[root@webserver ~]# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.symnds.com/distributions/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://mirror.symnds.com/distributions/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.CjOwN6: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 0608b895: NOKEY
Preparing…                ########################################### [100%]
1:epel-release           ########################################### [100%]
Now we’ll install the necessary packages:
[root@webserver ~]# yum -y install glusterfs-fuse glusterfs
Place the same hosts file in /etc/hosts as on GlusterFS nodes.  We will also create a folder /mnt/glusterfs to use as our …

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