GlusterFS
GlusterFS is a powerful, distributed filesystem, which can be scaled to several petabytes under a single mount point. Gluster is a fairly new addition to Proxmox that allows GlusterFS users to take full advantage of the Proxmox cluster. GlusterFS uses stripe, replicate, or distribute mode to store files. Although distribute mode offers the option of scalability, note that in stripe mode, when a GlusterFS node goes down, all the files in that server become inaccessible. This means that if a particular file is saved by the GlusterFS translator in that server, only that node holds the entire data of that file. Even though all the other nodes are operational, that particular file will no longer be available. GlusterFS can be scaled ...
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