QEMU-GlusterFS native integration
GlusterFS is a distributed file system implemented in user space. It is strictly not a native file system in itself but is an aggregator of different file systems. GlusterFS can aggregate individual...
View ArticleUNMAP/DISCARD support in QEMU-GlusterFS
In my last blog post on QEMU-GlusterFS, I described the integration of QEMU with GlusterFS using libgfapi. In this post, I give an overview of the recently added discard support to QEMU’s GlusterFS...
View ArticleTroubleshooting QEMU-GlusterFS
As described in my previous blog post, QEMU supports talking to GlusterFS using libgfapi which is a much better way to use GlusterFS to host VM images than using the FUSE mount to access GlusterFS...
View ArticleGlusterFS Block Device Translator
Block device translator Block device translator (BD xlator) is a new translator added to GlusterFS recently which provides block backend for GlusterFS. This replaces the existing bd_map translator in...
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