Re: [Gluster-users] glusterfs-volgen

2010-04-09 Thread Harshavardhana
On 04/08/2010 11:18 PM, Gmail - Activepage wrote: How to use glusterfs-volgen to creat an Replicate Volume of 3 Servers? With option raid=1 I an only use 2 or 4 servers, not 3. Volgen currently only supports 2way mirroring. If you need to do 3 way mirroring you need write your own volume

Re: [Gluster-users] WAN Challenge

2010-04-09 Thread Burnash, James
Hi, I'm no expert on this - more like a somewhat informed amateur - but your configuration sounds perhaps more suitable for a grid architecture using each location as a node in the grid. Grids often communicate via WANs like you have, and are tolerant of the slow bandwidth and possible loss of

[Gluster-users] WAN Challenge

2010-04-09 Thread Count Zero
Hi Guys, I've sent this once but I did not even get it myself from the mailing list so i'm not sure it was even received correctly so I am re-posting. My apologies if this is a re-post. I have an interesting situation, and I'm wondering if there's a solution for it in the glusterfs realm or if

Re: [Gluster-users] rmdir?

2010-04-09 Thread Tejas N. Bhise
Hi Mark, Debug using strace and also look/post debug logs for glusterfs. Regards, Tejas. - Original Message - From: "m roth" To: gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Friday, April 9, 2010 9:21:59 PM Subject: [Gluster-users] rmdir? Got glusterfs up, and re-exported using unfs. All lovely, if

[Gluster-users] Gluster crashing

2010-04-09 Thread Kelvin Westlake
Hi Guys I have 2 physical servers, which I'm trying to setup in a HA pair.. I'm sharing 2 volumes (home-gfs and shared-gfs) across these servers in RAID1 (replicated), then I'm mounting clients on each server as home/ and shared/, if I lose one of the Servers and then remount it, the client on the

[Gluster-users] rmdir?

2010-04-09 Thread m . roth
Got glusterfs up, and re-exported using unfs. All lovely, if not the fastest thing on the planet. However, my manager notes that he can't rmdir. Mounting it on my system, I created a directory, then tried to rmdir. That fails with i/o error. Trying from the head node that I'm re-exporting it from,

[Gluster-users] Lustre vs. Gluster performance testing - was RE: other cluster fs-- was - No space left on device (when there is actually lots of free space)

2010-04-09 Thread Burnash, James
Yes, after reading, that was largely my take as well. I didn't come away from it with a good understanding of: 1) Was the same hardware configuration used for both the Lustre and Gluster tests? (it looks like yes, but it's not explicitly stated 2) No configuration files were provided, nor were

Re: [Gluster-users] can we have multiple server sections in a single volume?

2010-04-09 Thread Joe Landman
Amar Tumballi wrote: | Is it possible to provide a single volume file to serve a gluster file system over ib-verbs and tcp | simultaneously? Yes. Its possible. Run 'glusterfs-volgen' with '--transport tcp,ib-verbs' as option. It will generate the required export volumes. (Technically, you hav