Ah. I understand. Maybe you could have glusterfsd listen on multiple ports. Each mountpoint could be assigned to its own port which if called, would yield its own client spec. Majied > 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Gluster-devel mailing list >>>>> Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx >>>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >
