I'm sorry, but right now I don't quite trust using the glusterfs nfsd server for diskless booting. I tried that with the glusterfs nfs server that came with 2.0.9 and was not able to make it work. There is a cruder way which is to not turn off the native nfs server. Then if the native server is started first the the gnfsd will fail to start. Still, it seems to me it shouldn't be so hard to turn of the gluster nfs server. --- Bill Sebok Computer Software Manager, Univ. of Maryland, Astronomy Internet: wls at astro.umd.edu URL: http://furo.astro.umd.edu/ On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:34:54PM -0800, Craig Carl wrote: > Bill - > I have a proposed solution for you, please let me know if it will > work in your environment. You can create a non-distributed, > non-replicated volume on the host, on a *empty* directory, then export > that using Gluster. > > # mkdir /newdir > # gluster volume create localdata <localhost>:/newdir > # gluster volume start localdata > # mount -t nfs -o vers=3 localhost:/localdata <some mount point> > > Then copy|mv the existing data into <some mount point>. This eliminates > the need to run a second NFS server. > > Thanks, > > Craig > > --> > Craig Carl > Senior Systems Engineer > Gluster > > > > On 12/07/2010 10:16 PM, Craig Carl wrote: > >Bill - > > We are working on a solution to this issue right now, please give > >me a couple of days to get back to you with an update. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Craig > > > >--> > >Craig Carl > >Senior Systems Engineer > >Gluster > > > >On 12/07/2010 10:30 AM, William L. Sebok wrote: > >>Many of the computers in our cluster are diskless and those computers > >>need to > >>have disk space exported to them. The space for diskless booting is > >>supplied > >>by a server within the cluster that does have disks and that also > >>supplies a > >>couple of bricks to a glusterfs file system. The space for diskless > >>booting > >>is *not* within a glusterfs file system. The servers for other > >>bricks in > >>the cluster have no special nfs needs. I need to be able to disable > >>glusterfs > >>nfs on the server for diskless booting and no other server so I can > >>have use > >>of the regular nfs server on that server. How would I do that? Is > >>it even > >>possible? > >> > >>Another solution, like moving the glusterfs nfs service to another > >>port would > >>also be acceptable. However I would likely still need have to have the > >>regular nfs service the one that portmap returns for that one server. > >> > >>Bill Sebok Computer Software Manager, Univ. of Maryland, Astronomy > >> Internet: wls at astro.umd.edu URL: http://furo.astro.umd.edu/ > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Gluster-users mailing list > >>Gluster-users at gluster.org > >>http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > >_______________________________________________ > >Gluster-users mailing list > >Gluster-users at gluster.org > >http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -- --- Bill Sebok
