On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 02:03:22PM +0000, Jason Hilton wrote: > Thank you Niels! That did the trick. I have everything worked out > now and I'm even able to access the NFS shares via windows clients. > Your help was much appreciated. Glad to hear it helped, thanks for the confirmation! Niels > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Niels de Vos [mailto:ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 4:58 AM > To: Jason Hilton > Cc: 'gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: Re: Volume creation time? > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 06:21:52PM +0000, Jason Hilton wrote: > > So I have been trying to get this going and the volume status command > > shows that the "NFS Server on localhost" is offline, port and pid are > > "N/A". I have double checked everything and NFS is disabled on start > > up an are not currently running. The showmount command returns > > "clnt_create: RPC: Program not registered" > > Please make sure that none of the RPC programs for NFS are registered at rpcbind before starting Gluster/NFS (or rebooting). > > You can check by executing 'rpcinfo' on the Gluster/NFS server. Any of the mountd, nlockmgr, status and nfs can block the registration of the NFS-server (and its helper protocols). Unregistering one of the protocols can be done like this: > > # rpcinfo > ... > 100005 3 tcp 0.0.0.0.150.65 mountd superuser > ... > > # rpcinfo -d 100005 3 > > Do this for all the protocols (+versions) mentioned above and restart the Gluster/NFS server process: > > # gluster volume start $VOLUME force > > The 'start force' will only start any missing processes, like the Gluster/NFS (a 'glusterfs' process). Running processes (like the ones for the bricks) should not be impacted. > > Niels > > > > > Any ideas? > > Thanks again! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Niels de Vos [mailto:ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 11:45 AM > > To: Jason Hilton > > Cc: 'gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx' > > Subject: Re: Volume creation time? > > > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 02:59:53PM +0000, Jason Hilton wrote: > > > Thank you for the quick reply! I didn't expect to see any response > > > on a Sunday. I did as you suggested and found some messages > > > stating that the address and port were failing to bind because it > > > was already in use. It turned out that the NFS service was running > > > and interfered with glusterd. I was intending to share my gluster > > > volumes via NFS and I thought I had read that as of V3, gluster > > > exported NFS shares by default, so I had started the service. Does > > > gluster provide its own NFS services? > > > > Yes, Gluster comes indeed with its own NFS-server. You should not start any NFS-services, Gluster takes care of starting them. The only service that you need to have running (or activated for systemd environments), is rpcbind. > > > > Once your volume has been created and started, you should be able to see that there is a NFS-server running with this command: > > > > # gluster volume status > > > > And, with 'showmount -e' the volme should be listed as an export. > > > > Cheers, > > Niels > > > > > > > > *************************************************************** > > > Jason Hilton > > > Director of Technology Development > > > 601 Madison Street, Suite 400 > > > Alexandria, VA 22314 > > > jason.hilton@xxxxxxxx > > > Desk: 703.824.0500x167 > > > FAX: 703.578.4952 > > > > > > AAAE Tech support: > > > IET@xxxxxxxx > > > 703.797.2555, opt. 2 > > > *************************************************************** > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Niels de Vos [mailto:ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 10:13 AM > > > To: Jason Hilton > > > Cc: 'gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx' > > > Subject: Re: Volume creation time? > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 01:34:24PM +0000, Jason Hilton wrote: > > > > Hi- > > > > I'm new to GlusterFS and I have been trying to set up a gluster > > > > volume. The volume is 150 TB. I started the create volume > > > > command on Friday morning and it has not yet completed. Since I > > > > have no prior experience with GlusterFS, is this an expected > > > > duration? The server is no power house, a pair of older Xeon Quad > > > > core processors at 2 GHz and only 4 GB of RAM. TOP shows very > > > > little processor usage, but IOTOP shows some disk I/O. I don't > > > > mind waiting it out, I just want to be sure that the process is > > > > still proceeding. Is there a way to monitor Gluster volume creation progress? > > > > > > Volume creation should be very fast, there is not a lot to do for Gluster to create a volume. A couple of seconds should be sufficient. > > > > > > Check the /var/log/glusterfs/etc-*.log to see if there are any errors listed there. > > > > > > HTH, > > > Niels _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
