Striping Across Four Storage Servers

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Server Vol-file

# file: /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-server.vol
volume posix
  type storage/posix
  option directory /data/export
end-volume

volume locks
  type features/locks
  subvolumes posix
end-volume

volume brick
  type performance/io-threads
  option thread-count 8
  subvolumes locks
end-volume

volume server
  type protocol/server
  option transport-type tcp/server
  option auth.addr.brick.allow *
  subvolumes brick
end-volume

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Client Vol-file

# file: /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol
volume remote1
  type protocol/client
  option transport-type tcp/client
  option remote-host storage1.example.com
  option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume

volume remote2
  type protocol/client
  option transport-type tcp/client
  option remote-host storage2.example.com
  option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume

volume remote3
  type protocol/client
  option transport-type tcp/client
  option remote-host storage3.example.com
  option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume

volume remote4
  type protocol/client
  option transport-type tcp/client
  option remote-host storage4.example.com
  option remote-subvolume brick
end-volume

volume stripe
  type cluster/stripe
  option block-size 1MB
  subvolumes remote1 remote2 remote3 remote4
end-volume

volume writebehind
  type performance/write-behind
  option window-size 1MB
  subvolumes stripe
end-volume

volume cache
  type performance/io-cache
  option cache-size 512MB
  subvolumes writebehind
end-volume

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