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Configuring GlusterFS shares

GlusterFS is a free and scalable network file system that is suitable for data-intensive tasks, such as cloud storage and media streaming. GlusterFS creates a volume on top of one or more storage nodes using bricks. A brick represents a file system on a storage node. There are several types of GlusterFS volumes defined by the placement of data on bricks. More information can be found by following the links provided at the end of this chapter. In this chapter, we only need to have a basic knowledge of the following volume types:

Type	Description
Distributed	All files are distributed between bricks/storage nodes. No redundancy is provided by this volume type.
Replicated	All files are replicated ...