Hi Shehjar, That's good to know. I'll try the unfsd. Thanks for your help. Kind regards / Met vriendelijke groet, Jonas Bulthuis Shehjar Tikoo wrote: > Jonas Bulthuis wrote: >> Hi Shehjar, >> >> Thanks for your reply. We may be interested in testing a alpha version >> in the future. I cannot tell for sure right now, but if you can send me >> an e-mail at the time this version becomes available, we can see if we >> can fit it in. >> >> We're currently running the Gluster FS on Ubuntu (LTS) servers. I can >> access the volumes though the Gluster client on the same machines. Do >> you know whether it's possible to export the Gluster client mount point >> through nfs-kernel-server instead of the user space NFS server? or would >> that be unwise? >> > > It is possible but it is not real solution. Due to the way knfsd > talks to FUSE, some amount of state in the kernel needs to be kept > around indefinitely, which causes problems of excessive memory usage. > unfsd does not cause such a problem. > > > -Shehjar > > >> Kind regards / Met vriendelijke groet, >> Jonas Bulthuis >> >> >> Shehjar Tikoo wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> Due to time constraints, booster has gone untested for the last couple >>> of months. I suggest using unfsd over fuse for the time >>> being. We'll be releasing an alpha of the NFS translator >>> somewhere in March. Let me know if you'd be interested in doing >>> early testing? >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Shehjar >>> >>> Jonas Bulthuis wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I'm using Gluster with cluster/replicate on two servers. On each of >>>> these servers I'm exporting the replicated volume through the UNFSv3 >>>> booster provided by Gluster. >>>> >>>> Multiple nfs clients are using these storage servers and most of the >>>> time it seems to work fine. However, sometimes the clients give error >>>> messages about a 'Stale NFS Handle' when trying to get a directory >>>> listing of some directory on the volume (not all directories gave this >>>> problem). Yesterday it happened after reinstalling the client machines. >>>> >>>> All the client machines had the same problem. Rebooting the client >>>> machines did not help. Eventually, restarting the UNFSv3 server solved >>>> the problem. >>>> >>>> At least the problem disappeared for now, but, as it happened twice >>>> in a >>>> short time now, it seems likely that it will occur again. >>>> >>>> Does anyone have any suggestion on how to permanently solve this >>>> problem? >>>> >>>> >>>> This is the nfs booster configuration we're currently using: >>>> >>>> /etc/glusterfs/cache_acceptation-tcp.vol /nfsexport_acceptation >>>> glusterfs >>>> subvolume=cache_acceptation,logfile=/usr/local/var/log/glusterfs/booster_acceptation.log,loglevel=DEBUG,attr_timeout=0 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Any help will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance. >>>> >>>> >
