[Gluster-users] Why does glusterfs has nfs stuff on the server

Shehjar Tikoo shehjart at gluster.com
Tue Mar 22 05:48:52 UTC 2011


All Gluster volumes are exported through nfs by default. To disable nfs on 
3.1.3 release, use the nfs.disable command line option. For more info on 
this, please see the release notes.

Mohit Anchlia wrote:
> When I installed gluster and do a "ps" on the process I see:
> 
> /usr/sbin/glusterfs -f /etc/glusterd/nfs/nfs-server.vol -p
> /etc/glusterd/nfs/run/nfs.pid -l /var/log/glusterfs/nfs.log"
> 
> My question is why did glusterfs use nfs-server.vol, nfs.pid and
> nfs.log instead of using some generic name. This is confusing and
> makes me think it's using nfs somehow on the server even though that
> doesn't look like it.
> 
> We use direct attached storage, not NFS. This seems to come with
> default installation of gluster. Is this just a mistake in how scripts
> were named or is there more to it?
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