I use NFS in production for legacy and non-Linux systems that don't have FUSE support. It's very handy. -Dan ---------------- Dan Mons Skunk Works Cutting Edge http://cuttingedge.com.au On 10 February 2014 23:23, Justin Clift <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:52:44 -0600 > "John G. Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Maybe this is a dumb question but do I have to set up an nfs server on >> one of the server peers in my gluster volume in order to connect to the >> volume with nfs? > > In theory, NFS is supposed to be enabled/running by default. > > Which version(s) of Gluster are use using? > > >> I did a port scan on a couple of the peers in my >> cluster and port 2049 was cloased. > > If you run "gluster volume status", what does it show? > >> I'm thinking maybe you have to >> configure an nfs server on one of the peers and it can read/write to the >> gluster volume like it would any disk. But then what do these commands do: >> >> gluster volume set <VOLNAME> nfs.disable off >> gluster volume set <VOLNAME> nfs.disable on > > Yeah, they're more for disabling that NFS server that's > on by default, for the people that don't want it. :) > > >> The documentation on the gluster.org web site seems to imply that yu >> don't need an nfs server. It specifically says you need the nfs-common >> package on your servers. That would imply you don't need the >> nfs-kernel-server package, right? See: >> http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Using_NFS_to_Mount_Volumes > > This bit I'm not sure of. I'm using NFS purely for doing testing in > a local VM (Gluster 3.4 and Gluster 3.5 dev), and haven't used it > in any real world scenario's yet. :( > > Does that help? > > Regards and best wishes, > > Justin Clift > > -- > GlusterFS Project: http://www.gluster.org > Justin Clift <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx> > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
