# gluster/glusterfs

Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes

Repository: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/glusterfs
Homepage: https://www.gluster.org
Language: C
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: gluster, storage, c, distributed-systems, glusterfs, libgfapi, k8s-sig-storage, filesystem, fuse-filesystem, high-availability, erasure-coding, snapshot, replication, linux, server
Last push: 2026-08-25T05:54:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5676, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 427, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5220, forks 1108 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:13.183140+00:00)

## What it is
Gluster is a free and open-source software-defined distributed filesystem that aggregates storage from multiple servers into a single scalable namespace, scaling to several petabytes. It provides file, block, and object storage interfaces with features like replication, erasure coding, snapshots, and high availability.

## Use cases
- build a petabyte-scale distributed storage cluster from commodity servers
- set up replicated storage volumes for high availability
- create erasure-coded storage to save disk space with fault tolerance
- provide shared storage backend for Kubernetes clusters
- take point-in-time snapshots of storage volumes
- aggregate disk space across multiple Linux servers into one filesystem
- serve as cloud storage for object, block, and file workloads

## When to choose
- you need scale-out network-attached storage on Linux with no single point of failure
- you want software-defined storage with replication, erasure coding, and snapshots built in
- you need a POSIX filesystem backend for containers or VMs across multiple nodes

## When to avoid
- you need a single-node local filesystem
- you want object storage with an S3 API as the primary interface
- your workload is metadata-heavy with millions of small files, where Gluster performs poorly
- you need storage on non-Linux platforms

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: file-system, caching, self-hosted
- domain: microservices, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-computing, self-hosted, files
- platform: self-hosted, web-server
- tags: distributed-storage, network-filesystem, fuse, erasure-coding, high-availability, snapshots, scale-out-storage, libgfapi, kubernetes-storage, storage, replication, linux

## Member repositories
- gluster/glusterfs (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:13.183140+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:00:08.804250+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:13.183140+00:00, sha e0e2a9a58c5e)
  - homepage: https://www.gluster.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:57:17.411229+00:00, sha 4ebb8bdb9c0d)
  - site_page: https://www.gluster.org/install (fetched 2026-08-29T08:57:17.420584+00:00, sha 9766058c9ac2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.