Hi, I'm new to using GlusterFS. I'm starting to test out 3.1.3, rpm based, on centos 5.5. I was previously using NFS and was looking for a nice HA setup. I have it set up as raid1 on 2 storage servers with 5-6 clients using the native client. After reading the docs, I have a couple questions. 1. To turn NFS services off, looks like I need to set nfs.disable. What's the possible values for this? 0,1,on,off,etc.. Also, do I need to do anything other than the command line 'set' command? Edit export config files? Remove or change nfs-server.vol? 2. I was reading in previous versions (tutorials and such) about server-side replication using AFR, but haven't seen any instances of it with the new version/config setup. I was wondering if it's still used and/or recommended for server-side replication. If it is, I am also curious as to its major upsides and downsides versus the default client-side replication with the native client. 3. My 2 storage servers i.e. glusterd happen to run on servers that are also clients. I notice that if I shut down glusterd on 1 of them that it alos shuts down the gluster client mounts. In a situation where glusted might be stopped either for: stupidity, OOM condition, segfault or other fatal error in program, the client mount on that machine would die and never go to the other storage server. I was wondering if there's a good reason for this? And what are the implications of commenting the unmounts out in the stop() section of init.d script? 4. The documentation says that the diagnostics.* log level options have possible values of "DEBUG|WARNING|ERROR|CRITICAL|NONE|TRACE" but that the default level is NORMAL. Would I then be correct in assuming that DEBUG is 1 up in detail level from NORMAL? Is there a reason NORMAL isn't in the list of possible values? Appreciate any help you can provide, and a thanks out to the developers and people who work on this project. Thank you, -Tony --------------------------- Manager, IT Operations Format Dynamics, Inc. P: 303-228-7327 F: 303-228-7305 abiacco at formatdynamics.com http://www.formatdynamics.com
