Yep, I'm already doing what you do (accept sharing the same root
filesystem amongst your clients via diskless booting), using local files
referenced in the fstab.
If you tell the glusterfsd the location of a client file, it can serve
that to clients that ask, so that you don't need to keep a local copy of
the client spec file. I was hoping that there was a way (or, more likely,
the feature could be added) to have the glusterfsd serve up different
client spec files by name.
Thanks,
Brent
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, majied.najjar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Brent,
But are you referring to a server from which to retrieve your client
files, or do you just have local client files?
I have local client files, though they are all managed from a central
location via diskless booting.
If you are doing retrieval of different client spec files from a remote
server, how do you specify the different files in the glusterfsd spec
I do not reference a client spec file in the glusterfsd spec file.
However, I do reference the volumes defined in the glusterfsd spec file in
the client spec file.
and how do you reference the different client specs when doing the mounts?
I name my client files after my mounts. For example "/home" would be
"/etc/glusterfs/home.vol" and it would look like this alongside "/var" in
the fstab:
/etc/glusterfs/home.vol /home glusterfs defaults 0 0
/etc/glusterfs/var.vol /var glusterfs defaults 0 0
Once it is in the fstab, you can mount it with:
`mount /home`
or
`mount -t glusterfs /etc/glusterfs/home.vol /home`
I hope I did not miss your question...
Majied
Majied
Thanks,
Brent
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, majied.najjar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Sure.
I am actually using a separate client file per mount point referenced in
/etc/fstab in one implementation.
Majied
Is it possible to have multiple client spec files served from one
glusterfsd? It would be nice to be able to specify which filesystem you
want to mount by name.
Thanks,
Brent
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