Re: [Gluster-devel] 1.4.0 and HA Translator

2008-12-23 Thread Krishna Srinivas
Melvin, HA is better than heartbeat as it makes sure that the failover is smooth on the open file descriptors taking care of the problems you mentioned. Give it a try and let us know if something does not work. Krishna On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Melvin Wong wrote: > Hi Raghavendra, > > Tk

Re: [Gluster-devel] Preventing glusterfs from writting to mtab

2008-12-23 Thread Harshavardhana Ranganath
FUSE writes mtab by default. Now for not writing mtab, during fuse compilation there is a configure option --disable-mtab. Then i think glusterfs will not update mtab. Regards On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Anand Avati wrote: > GlusterFS does not write mtab. FUSE writes to mtab. I'm not sure i

RE: [Gluster-devel] 1.4.0 and HA Translator

2008-12-23 Thread Melvin Wong
Hi Raghavendra, Tks for the quick reply. Another question is do you know if Heatbeat is better choice or HA translator for failover. When we use HA translator, what will happen to the open files or current file transfer during a failover? Will the clients clashes while trying to connect to the sl

Re: [Gluster-devel] 1.4.0 and HA Translator

2008-12-23 Thread Raghavendra G
Hi Melvin, I meant HA is also designed to help server side afr setups you've explained. Sorry for the typo. On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Raghavendra G wrote: > Hi Melvin, > > Yes, Heart beat is also designed to help server side afr setups you've > explained. > > 2008/12/23 Melvin Wong > >>

Re: [Gluster-devel] 1.4.0 and HA Translator

2008-12-23 Thread Raghavendra G
Hi Melvin, Yes, Heart beat is also designed to help server side afr setups you've explained. 2008/12/23 Melvin Wong > Hi, > I will like to know is there a need to upgrade my current setup from > glusterfs-1.3.11 to 1.4.0rc6. What major bug fixes are there in 1.4 since > 1.3.11? Also, currently

Re: [Gluster-devel] error while copying files to volume

2008-12-23 Thread Brian Hirt
I stopped it after I saw the log messages. When gluster started reporting things as errors (instead of warnings) I figured something was wrong. I'll fire it back up and see how it goes. --brian On Dec 23, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Anand Avati wrote: Brian, These logs related to rsync need not

Re: [Gluster-devel] Preventing glusterfs from writting to mtab

2008-12-23 Thread Anand Avati
GlusterFS does not write mtab. FUSE writes to mtab. I'm not sure if fuse has an option not to write avati 2008/12/24 Martin Fick : > Is there a way of preventing glusterfs from writing to mtab? If not, would > you consider adding such an option? > _

[Gluster-devel] Preventing glusterfs from writting to mtab

2008-12-23 Thread Martin Fick
Is there a way of preventing glusterfs from writing to mtab? If not, would you consider adding such an option? -Martin ___ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel

Re: [Gluster-devel] error while copying files to volume

2008-12-23 Thread Anand Avati
Brian, These logs related to rsync need not be worried. Is rsync actually completing? these log messages will be fixed soon. Thanks, avati > Hi, > > Thanks for your help thus far. I'm continuing my testing and have run > across some errors in my logfiles. I'm using rsync from a local directo

[Gluster-devel] error while copying files to volume

2008-12-23 Thread Brian Hirt
*i'm sending this message a send time, just in case the first one got lost. If there is anything I can do to help with this, please let me know* Hi, Thanks for your help thus far. I'm continuing my testing and have run across some errors in my logfiles. I'm using rsync from a local

[Gluster-devel] 1.4.0 and HA Translator

2008-12-23 Thread Melvin Wong
Hi, I will like to know is there a need to upgrade my current setup from glusterfs-1.3.11 to 1.4.0rc6. What major bug fixes are there in 1.4 since 1.3.11? Also, currently my setup consist of 2 glusterfs servers mirroring each other with AFR. One of the server is set as master where all the clien

[Gluster-devel] Xen on gluster 1.3.x report

2008-12-23 Thread Jordi Moles Blanco
Hi, i just want to report back after my experience with 1.3.x from tla repositories and also ask for you opinion about a couple of issues I've faced. The thing is that i had an already running Xen 3.2 machine, with some virtual machines in it. Then i prepared a gluster environment with 2TB