On Fri, 6 May 2011 at 5:00pm, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote >> 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? OK, a quick test reveals that I'm seeing this with or without glusterd running on the clients. Is there anything to that warning? Again, I'm seeing this in the server logs whenever a client mounts the filesystem (using the fuse client): [2011-05-06 15:20:16.451959] W [socket.c:1494:__socket_proto_state_machine] 0-socket.management: reading from socket failed. Error (Transport endpoint is not connected), peer (172.19.12.4:1022) -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF