# Why avoid to use glusterfs for the blob storage?

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/why-avoid-to-use-glusterfs-for-the-blob-storage/5594>\
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\
**Tags:** blob\
**Created:** [December 18, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/why-avoid-to-use-glusterfs-for-the-blob-storage/5594 "2020-12-18T09:02:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![test](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@test](https://community.sonatype.com/u/test)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/why-avoid-to-use-glusterfs-for-the-blob-storage/5594/1 "2020-12-18T09:02:20Z")

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hello everyone. In the fllow website, it showed some suggestion about blob storage.  
[configuring-blob-stores](https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager3/high-availability/configuring-blob-stores)

I don’t know why avoid to use glusterfs for the blob storage? In my cluster, I use glusterf7.5 replica volume 1 \* 3 for the blob storage of nexus3.27. By the way, I knew that glusterfs **Distributed Volumes** is danagerous for nexus. So I changed it for replica volume 1 \* 3.  
thanks.

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**Author:** ![rseddon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/rseddon/32/341_2.png) [@rseddon](https://community.sonatype.com/u/rseddon)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/why-avoid-to-use-glusterfs-for-the-blob-storage/5594/2 "2020-12-18T21:17:07Z")

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We’ve seen multiple cases of unresolvable performance problems when glusterfs is used.

Rich

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**Author:** ![test](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@test](https://community.sonatype.com/u/test)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/why-avoid-to-use-glusterfs-for-the-blob-storage/5594/4 "2020-12-22T01:57:55Z")

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thanks for answer. few days ago, I also met some problems with glusterfs Distributed volume when I restarted the gluster cluster.  
it caused that a blob could not make the es dulk adding to index document during uploading .  
By the way, could you list some examples about unresolvable performance problems when you use it ? thanks.