[Gluster-users] nfs-ganesha with disperse volume

[Serkan Çoban]

Thanks, I understand it. Now I am trying to export a volume through
nfs-ganesha but have a question again.
In the EXPORT block in ganesha.conf, for the export path I need the
enter the full path to gluster volume.
So this means that I need to mount the gluster volume on the server
right? Currently I don't have gluster volume mounted on servers.
If this is true each server also will be a client right?

Serkan

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Serkan Çoban wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to ask if we can use nfs-ganesha with disperse volumes? If so,
>> how the underlying process works? Gluster client split the file to
>> chunks and write each chunk to different server in cluster; in case of
>> nfs how this will work?
>
> Yes, that should work just fine.
> The NFS server acts as a Gluster client. So, on one side the NFS-server
> speaks the standard NFS protocol to the clients, on the other side it
> talks to the bricks in the volume. The logic of the distribution and
> splitting of data is done inside the NFS-server (by libgfapi in
> FSAL_GLUSTER for NFS-Ganesha).
>
> HTH,
> Niels