diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/glusterfs.nix b/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/glusterfs.nix
index e7f52bc4a7d1..15777d45f785 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/glusterfs.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/network-filesystems/glusterfs.nix
@@ -41,6 +41,57 @@ in
         default = "INFO";
       };
 
+      useRpcbind = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        description = ''
+          Enable use of rpcbind. This is required for Gluster's NFS functionality.
+
+          You may want to turn it off to reduce the attack surface for DDoS reflection attacks.
+
+          See https://davelozier.com/glusterfs-and-rpcbind-portmap-ddos-reflection-attacks/
+          and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1426842 for details.
+        '';
+        default = true;
+      };
+
+      enableGlustereventsd = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        description = "Whether to enable the GlusterFS Events Daemon";
+        default = true;
+      };
+
+      killMode = mkOption {
+        type = types.enum ["control-group" "process" "mixed" "none"];
+        description = ''
+          The systemd KillMode to use for glusterd.
+
+          glusterd spawns other daemons like gsyncd.
+          If you want these to stop when glusterd is stopped (e.g. to ensure
+          that NixOS config changes are reflected even for these sub-daemons),
+          set this to 'control-group'.
+          If however you want running volume processes (glusterfsd) and thus
+          gluster mounts not be interrupted when glusterd is restarted
+          (for example, when you want to restart them manually at a later time),
+          set this to 'process'.
+        '';
+        default = "control-group";
+      };
+
+      stopKillTimeout = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        description = ''
+          The systemd TimeoutStopSec to use.
+
+          After this time after having been asked to shut down, glusterd
+          (and depending on the killMode setting also its child processes)
+          are killed by systemd.
+
+          The default is set low because GlusterFS (as of 3.10) is known to
+          not tell its children (like gsyncd) to terminate at all.
+        '';
+        default = "5s";
+      };
+
       extraFlags = mkOption {
         type = types.listOf types.str;
         description = "Extra flags passed to the GlusterFS daemon";
@@ -89,7 +140,7 @@ in
   config = mkIf cfg.enable {
     environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.glusterfs ];
 
-    services.rpcbind.enable = true;
+    services.rpcbind.enable = cfg.useRpcbind;
 
     environment.etc = mkIf (cfg.tlsSettings != null) {
       "ssl/glusterfs.pem".source = cfg.tlsSettings.tlsPem;
@@ -104,9 +155,8 @@ in
 
       wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
 
-      requires = [ "rpcbind.service" ];
-      after = [ "rpcbind.service" "network.target" "local-fs.target" ];
-      before = [ "network-online.target" ];
+      requires = lib.optional cfg.useRpcbind "rpcbind.service";
+      after = [ "network.target" "local-fs.target" ] ++ lib.optional cfg.useRpcbind [ "rpcbind.service" ];
 
       preStart = ''
         install -m 0755 -d /var/log/glusterfs
@@ -130,11 +180,12 @@ in
         PIDFile="/run/glusterd.pid";
         LimitNOFILE=65536;
         ExecStart="${glusterfs}/sbin/glusterd -p /run/glusterd.pid --log-level=${cfg.logLevel} ${toString cfg.extraFlags}";
-        KillMode="process";
+        KillMode=cfg.killMode;
+        TimeoutStopSec=cfg.stopKillTimeout;
       };
     };
 
-    systemd.services.glustereventsd = {
+    systemd.services.glustereventsd = mkIf cfg.enableGlustereventsd {
       inherit restartTriggers;
 
       description = "Gluster Events Notifier";
@@ -143,6 +194,10 @@ in
 
       after = [ "syslog.target" "network.target" ];
 
+      preStart = ''
+        install -m 0755 -d /var/log/glusterfs
+      '';
+
       serviceConfig = {
         Type="simple";
         Environment="PYTHONPATH=${glusterfs}/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages";