Hmmm, where can i check if client is configured to pull configuration from server ? On server i have /etc/glusterd and /etc/gluster which look like it is not used at all. On client end there is only /etc/gluster which is also not used( all defaults ). Matus 2011/9/15 <Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov>: > > > gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org wrote on 09/15/2011 08:40:52 AM: > >> i'm little confused about gluster configuration interface. I did start >> with gluster 3.2 and i did all configurations using gluster cli >> command. >> Now when i was looking into way how to tune performance i find out in >> documentation on many places some pieces of text configuration files, >> but usually there is a warning that it is old and should be not used. >> >> Right now im solving how to turn on io-cache and i find in some >> documentation that it need to be turned on on server and client end as >> well. >> On server i did use >> gluster volume set atlas performance.io-cache on >> >> but on client gluser command die on timeout or error that glusterd >> not working. >> >> So question is how to configure correctly client end on gluster ?? >> There is very little about this on gluster 3.2 documentation and i >> don't know how much from 3.1 can be used here. And is there any >> translator documentation for gluster 3.2 ? > > With the newer versions they are really pushing away from having to > manually configure bits. ?As long as your client is configured to pull its > configuration file from the server when you run the command on the server > the client should get an updated config file. > > You should be able to look in the clients log file and see the fact that > the config file updated (I don't have an example at the moment). > > Another way you can check this is if the number of connections from the > client to the server (netstat -pant | grep gluster | wc -l) increases after > you make the change. (should increase by the count of bricks in the volume > i believe). > > -greg > >