Re: [Gluster-devel] Best practices question

2008-05-01 Thread Amar S. Tumballi
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Brandon Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From wiki: > If '/mnt/sda1' is your export disk, it is nice if you export > '/mnt/sda1/export/' through glusterfs, instead of exporting /mnt/sda1 > itself > > Question: > Why? > I had put that thinking of the manageability

[Gluster-devel] Best practices question

2008-05-01 Thread Brandon Lamb
>From wiki: If '/mnt/sda1' is your export disk, it is nice if you export '/mnt/sda1/export/' through glusterfs, instead of exporting /mnt/sda1 itself Question: Why? =P ___ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mai

Re: [Gluster-devel] Best practices?

2007-06-04 Thread Anand Avati
running glusterfsd and glusterfs on the same node is definitely not a bad practice. the nufa scheduler (to be used with the unify translator) is written with such a scenario in mind where a group of HPC machines export a 'piece' of the storage and all of them get a combined shared mount. to build

Fwd: [Gluster-devel] Best practices?

2007-06-03 Thread Brandon Lamb
On 6/3/07, James Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: that is a good question, and how would you compile glusterfs and glusterfsd ? On 6/3/07, Brandon Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I was wondering if there was any input on best practices of setting up > a 2 or 3 server cluster. > > My questi

Re: [Gluster-devel] Best practices?

2007-06-03 Thread James Porter
that is a good question, and how would you compile glusterfs and glusterfsd ? On 6/3/07, Brandon Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering if there was any input on best practices of setting up a 2 or 3 server cluster. My question has to do with where to run glusterfsd (server) and where

[Gluster-devel] Best practices?

2007-06-03 Thread Brandon Lamb
I was wondering if there was any input on best practices of setting up a 2 or 3 server cluster. My question has to do with where to run glusterfsd (server) and where to run glusterfs (mounting as a client). Should I keep the servers that are actually handling the drives and exporting the gluster