On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Arthur Taylor <ataylor761 at gmail.com> wrote: > I have a simple question regarding GlusterFS's usage. Let's suppose I'm > exporting a home directory via GlusterFS from a server to a few client > machines. Is it ok if users login into the server to create and edit files? > I'm not interested in using features such as Automated File Replication. I'm > just wondering whether it is safe to manipulate files directly on the > server. As others have said, mount the gluster file system on each of the nodes in the same location. So for example, have your data bricks in /export on just the Gluster nodes, but mount them up as /home on all client and server nodes (auto-mount at boot via /etc/fstab). This is the same way you would export Gluster file systems via NFS or CIFS (Samba) if you only had one storage node to start with. -Dan
