On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 02:04:53PM +0200, Serkan Çoban wrote: > Thanks, I understand it. Now I am trying to export a volume through > nfs-ganesha but have a question again. > In the EXPORT block in ganesha.conf, for the export path I need the > enter the full path to gluster volume. > So this means that I need to mount the gluster volume on the server > right? Currently I don't have gluster volume mounted on servers. > If this is true each server also will be a client right? No, you do not need to mount the Gluster volume on the system that has NFS-Ganesha running. The documentation should explain pretty good what you need to configure: http://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/NFS-Ganesha%20GlusterFS%20Intergration/ Niels > > Serkan > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Serkan Çoban wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I want to ask if we can use nfs-ganesha with disperse volumes? If so, > >> how the underlying process works? Gluster client split the file to > >> chunks and write each chunk to different server in cluster; in case of > >> nfs how this will work? > > > > Yes, that should work just fine. > > The NFS server acts as a Gluster client. So, on one side the NFS-server > > speaks the standard NFS protocol to the clients, on the other side it > > talks to the bricks in the volume. The logic of the distribution and > > splitting of data is done inside the NFS-server (by libgfapi in > > FSAL_GLUSTER for NFS-Ganesha). > > > > HTH, > > Niels
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