Re: [Gluster-users] Passing noforget option to glusterfs native client mounts

2013-12-24 Thread Anirban Ghoshal
Thanks, Harshavardhana, Anand for the tips! I checked out parts of the linux-2.6.34 (the one we are using down here) knfsd/fuse code. I understood (hopefully, rightly) that when we export a fuse directory over NFS and specify an fsid, the handle is constructed somewhat like this: fh_size (4 by

Re: [Gluster-users] Passing noforget option to glusterfs native client mounts

2013-12-24 Thread Harshavardhana
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Anirban Ghoshal wrote: > Hi, and Thanks a lot, Anand! > > I was initially searching for a good answer to why the glusterfs site lists > knfsd as NOT compatible with the glusterfs. So, now I know. :) > > Funnily enough, we didn't have a problem with the failover du

Re: [Gluster-users] Passing noforget option to glusterfs native client mounts

2013-12-24 Thread Anirban Ghoshal
Hi, and Thanks a lot, Anand! I was initially searching for a good answer to why the glusterfs site lists knfsd as NOT compatible with the glusterfs.  So, now I know. :) Funnily enough, we didn't have a problem with the failover during our testing. We passed constant fsid's (fsid=xxx) while expo

[Gluster-users] glusterfs-3.4.2qa5 released

2013-12-24 Thread Gluster Build System
RPM: http://bits.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.4.2qa5/ SRC: http://bits.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/src/glusterfs-3.4.2qa5.tar.gz This release is made off jenkins-release-54 -- Gluster Build System ___ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-us

Re: [Gluster-users] Passing noforget option to glusterfs native client mounts

2013-12-24 Thread Anand Avati
Hi, Allowing noforget option to FUSE will not help for your cause. Gluster persents the address of the inode_t as the nodeid to FUSE. In turn FUSE creates a filehandle using this nodeid for knfsd to export to nfs client. When knfsd fails over to another server, FUSE will decode the handle encoded b