I have 4 file servers that I want to access under a single mount point from another server. This server has a web application that should serve content from the mounted point. I think I can achieve this with glusterfs.
Considering that the file servers have fairly powerful hardware, I want to install a webserver on each of them and serve those files via a reverse proxy.
Any thoughts on how I may be able to do so?
I suspect that sentence is rather confused. Yes you can have multiple filesystems accessible and mounted at the same place - but its not a trivial exercise - I suspect your intention is to provide a gateway to the four filesystems via a single mount point - which is not the same thing at all.
Do you mean that the same filesystem is to be available on 4 servers? This is the only scenario where glusterfs would seem to make sense.
What are the protocols involved here?
Assuming that its a replication problem, how near to real time does it have to be? How should it cope with failures?
You seem to think that a reverse-proxy is a solution. But a solution to what?
As a follow up, I ended up using gluster fs on the servers, having a single web server on the machine that hosted the gluster client for all the hosts.