2010/12/2 Deadpan110 <deadpan110 at gmail.com>: > Hiya, > > I have never tried glusterfs with /home but from what I understand > (anyone please correct me if I am wrong), locking on the glusterfs NFS > server is not 100% like real NFS3... and even so... true NFS locking > is poor anyways. Yes, as far as I understand googling around, glusterfs doesn't implement NLM, and many applications that rely on it don't play nice without it. > Firefox is a prime example of not being NFS friendly too (not > glusterfs, but NFS in general), Firefox uses sqlite and that will not > play nicely over NFS. The system currently in production is a glusterfs 3.0.5 with fuse-clients, and I'm investigating some troubles with gvfsd-metadata and it's database that seems to get corrupted. I was evaluating the possibility to switch to NFS-client and glusterfs 3.1, but it's really not a solution due to locks. I've got problems with corrupted firefox profiles in the past, but disappeared after a glusterfs upgrade (don't remember which version i was using, probably 3.0.2). > I have had some success using native glusterfs mounting (fuse) for use > with locking, and version 3.1.1 (i have only used GA9 so far) seemed > stable. My next step would probably be upgrade to 3.0.6 or 3.1.1, both with fuse-clients. > Again, I have not used for a desktop gnome environment, but would > suggest you give it a try. Many thanks you for your thoughts. -- Giovanni Toraldo http://gionn.net/
