[Gluster-users] Mixing RDMA & TCP Protocol

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Riel
Hi, I have a question about mixing tcp and rdma transport protocols... I have recently set up a infiniband gluster with two servers, replicated and using rdma as transport-type. I'm now trying to hook the clients into this by mounting the gigE ip from the main gluster server (server1)... how

Re: [Gluster-users] rdma problems with glusterfs 3.1.0

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Galloway
ok, i can upgrade ofed (will be a PITA :-)). in the interim, if i move the gluster volume over to tcp transport, is it cleanly transportable back to rdma once my ofed issue is resolved? --- michael On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Craig Carl wrote: > Michael - >I would suggest OFED 1.5.1, w

Re: [Gluster-users] Strange Problem

2010-10-29 Thread Serdar Sahin
Hi, I solved this problem by downgrading glusterfs from 3.1 to 2.0.9, could not find the source of the problem though. I am using same configuration files and the same setup. I just downgraded the version. For your information, I am using rpm builds. I think it was a bug in the 3.1 build or missi

Re: [Gluster-users] Way to improve GlusterFS performance for serving rails applications?

2010-10-29 Thread Joe Landman
On 10/29/2010 12:23 PM, Horacio Sanson wrote: The problem is that if I run any rails application when stored in the gluster volume it take minutes to start and then each page load take 5~10 secs. If instead I run the rails app from the local hard disk in the same machine it goes fast as thunder.

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS behavior with 2 clients

2010-10-29 Thread Vikas Gorur
On Oct 28, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Matt Sorin wrote: > Can someone please tell me what I have done incorrectly? Matt, You have run into this bug: http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=2027 This has been fixed in the repository and will be available in the next release. Until t

[Gluster-users] How to clean/reset glusterfs config?

2010-10-29 Thread Joe Whitney
Hello, I'm trying to set up an experimental gluster storage cluster using virtual machines (VMs) on Xen. I want to be able to instruct the VMs to "forget" any previous gluster configuration (i.e. the server to forget about all previously configured peers, the peers to forget what storage volumes

[Gluster-users] Replicate Question

2010-10-29 Thread John Lao
I want to set up distribute/replicate and I want to know if I can set up a dedicated subnet for replication? Regards, John ___ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS export issue with GlusterFS 3.1

2010-10-29 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Shehjar: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Shehjar Tikoo wrote: > Thats not recommended but I can see why this is needed. The simplest way to > run the nfs server for the two replicas is to simply copy over the nfs > volume file from the current nfs server. It will work right away. The volume

Re: [Gluster-users] Way to improve GlusterFS performance for serving rails applications?

2010-10-29 Thread pkoelle
Am 29.10.2010 18:23, schrieb Horacio Sanson: [ ... rails via gluster mount ] Hi Horacio, The questions: Am I doing something wrong or missing something or is this expected? I don't think you are doing something wrong. We tried the same (serving rails apps off of gluster mounts) and perfo

Re: [Gluster-users] Way to improve GlusterFS performance for serving rails applications?

2010-10-29 Thread Jacob Shucart
It would be better to have the rails application files on the local disk and use the Gluster storage for images and other content that is uploaded. The main reason for this is that a single access on a rails application might result in the webserver having to read 20 small files. When you add up t

Re: [Gluster-users] How to clean/reset glusterfs config?

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Robbert
Joe, I believe that everything Gluster knows about is stored in /etc/glusterd by default. I have just been removing this directory after shutting down services whenever I want to test something from scratch. Mike Robbert On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Joe Whitney wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying

[Gluster-users] concurrent write and read to the same file

2010-10-29 Thread Lana Deere
GlusterFS 3.1.0, distributed volumes, rdma transport, CentOS 5.4/5.5. I was doing "tail -f" on a log file while the program generating it was running and noticed some strange behavior. I wasn't able to reproduce exactly the same strange behavior, but here is some which did reproduce for me reliab

Re: [Gluster-users] How to clean/reset glusterfs config?

2010-10-29 Thread Joe Whitney
Thanks, that seems to work. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Michael Robbert wrote: > Joe, > I believe that everything Gluster knows about is stored in /etc/glusterd by > default. I have just been removing this directory after shutting down > services whenever I want to test something from scrat