Hi Rajasekhar, Please find comments inlined. On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:20 PM, rajasekhar gurram < rajasekhar.gurram at locuz.com> wrote: > Dear Team, > I have installed and configured gluster in one server and client. > one time it was worked fine, again later it is not working. > my configuration files. > server > [root at rhel2 ~]# cat /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-server.vol > volume rhel2 > type storage/posix # POSIX FS translator > option directory /opt # Export this directory > end-volume > > volume rhel2 > type protocol/server > option transport-type tcp/server # For TCP/IP transport > option client-volume-filename /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol > subvolumes export test > option auth.ip.rhel2.allow * # Allow access to "brick" volume > end-volume > * Both xlators (protocol/server and storage/posix) are named as rhel2. Each translator instance should be given a different name. * protocol/server lists "export" as one of its subvolumes, which is not present in the specfile. Try removing it if you dont need it. * server should have "option client-volume-specfile <glusterfs-volume-specification-file>" or a client-specfile should be present as <glusterfs-install-prefix>/etc/glusterfs-client.vol > > [root at rhel2 ~]# > > client > [root at test ~]# cat /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol > volume rhel2 > type protocol/client > option transport-type tcp/client > option remote-host 10.129.150.227 > option remote-subvolume rhel2 > end-volume > [root at test ~]# > problem: > > [root at test ~]# glusterfs --server 10.129.150.227 /mnt/glusterfs/ > --volume-name r hel2 > glusterfs: could not open specfile > > > [root at test ~]# > > Apart from these i have few doubts, > 1)In our website it told that gluster there is no single point of failure. > But as per configuration point of view it is like server and client model > so if server fails > client cannot able to mount. > No single point of failure when glusterfs is run in clustered mode. What it exactly means that there is nothing like a single metadata server, failure of which renders cluster not operational (Though currently unify has a limitation in the form of namespace, which will be fixed in future releases). > > 2)In server how can i confirm whether server was exported or not where as > in NFS we have command to check showmount. > There is no tool currently which tell the directories exported by server. But this can be found out by checking logfiles of server. > > > kindly inform me If iam doing wrong, it will help full for me to go further > checks. > > Thanks and Regards > G.Rajasekhar, > System Engineer. > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > -- Raghavendra G A centipede was happy quite, until a toad in fun, Said, "Prey, which leg comes after which?", This raised his doubts to such a pitch, He fell flat into the ditch, Not knowing how to run. -Anonymous -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20080702/02eeed2d/attachment.htm
