answer inline... On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Mag Gam<magawake at gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to setup gluster 2.0 and I am a new user. Welcome. > > Basically, I been trying to follow the tutorials but I am having no luck. > > My setup is 2 servers and 10 clients for now. > > Couple of questions: > > On the client, do I have to have FUSE module? If you want to mount the filesystem, you need to use FUSE. You can also nfs mount it if you setup a unfs server on another client and share the gluster mount. > Do I have to run all this as root? yes to mount the filesystem > How can I check what clients are mounted on the server side? Not really an easy way to do it, however i use... (in linux) netstat -pan | grep EST | grep gluster_listen_port > How can I check weather I can talk to the server via gluster tools > (not ping :-)? Try telneting to the gluster_listen_port - if it answers its up. liam