I did indeed start with 'glusterfsd' for the NFS mount! Justice London jlondon at lawinfo.com On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 13:25 -0600, Tejas N. Bhise wrote: > Justice, > > A quick question - did you start nfs with 'glusterfs' or 'glusterfsd'. If you used 'glusterfs' please retry with 'glusterfsd' and let me know the results. > > We have mentioned in the release notes to use 'glusterfsd', but I saw a couple other users face a problem because they used 'glusterfs' ( probably because of the way unfsd or knfs was used ). > > Regards, > Tejas. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Justice London" <jlondon at lawinfo.com> > To: "Tejas N. Bhise" <tejas at gluster.com> > Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org, gluster-devel at nongnu.org, nfs-alpha at gluster.com > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 2:39:27 AM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi > Subject: Re: Announcement: Alpha Release of Native NFS for GlusterFS > > I'm sorry.. but I don't know how you guys tested this, but using a > bare-bones configuration with the NFS translator and a mirror > configuration between two systems (no performance translators, etc.) I > can lock up the entire system after writing 160-180megs of data. > > Basically: > dd if=/dev/full of=testfile bs=1M count=1000 is enough to lock the > entire machine. > > This is on a CentOS 5.4 system with a xen backend (for testing). > > I don't know what you guys tested with, but I can't get this stable... > at all. > > Justice London > jlondon at lawinfo.com > On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 10:36 -0600, Tejas N. Bhise wrote: > > Dear Community Users, > > > > Gluster is happy to announce the ALPHA release of the native NFS Server. > > The native NFS server is implemented as an NFS Translator and hence > > integrates very well, the NFS protocol on one side and GlusterFS protocol > > on the other side. > > > > This is an important step in our strategy to extend the benefits of > > Gluster to other operating system which can benefit from a better NFS > > based data service, while enjoying all the backend smarts that Gluster > > provides. > > > > The new NFS Server also strongly supports our efforts towards > > becoming a virtualization storage of choice. > > > > The release notes of the NFS ALPHA Release are available at - > > > > http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/nfs-alpha/GlusterFS_NFS_Alpha_Release_Notes.pdf > > > > The Release notes describe where RPMs and source code can be obtained > > and where bugs found in this ALPHA release can be filed. Some examples > > on usage are also provided. > > > > Please be aware that this is an ALPHA release and in no way should be > > used in production. Gluster is not responsible for any loss of data > > or service resulting from the use of this ALPHA NFS Release. > > > > Feel free to send feedback, comments and questions to: nfs-alpha at gluster.com > > > > Regards, > > Tejas Bhise. > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-users mailing list > > Gluster-users at gluster.org > > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > >
