On Fri, 6 May 2011 at 1:44pm, Vikas Gorur wrote > The clients do *not* need to run glusterd. This is what I hoped to hear. But... > Glusterd is the management daemon, and it needs to run on all the > servers. If you shut down the glusterd service, it stops all volumes by > killing the GlusterFS processes. This is why you will see your clients > return errors. Glusterd interacts with the 'gluster' command-line tool, > and is responsible for creating and starting volumes and making changes > to volume configuration. I'm not seeing errors on the clients. The errors (well, warnings actually) I posted are in /var/log/glusterfs/etc-glusterfs-glusterd.vol.log on the *servers*. I can safely ignore them, then? -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF