[Gluster-devel] Gluster Recovery

[Brent A Nelson]

Yep, I'm already doing what you do (accept sharing the same root 
filesystem amongst your clients via diskless booting), using local files 
referenced in the fstab.

If you tell the glusterfsd the location of a client file, it can serve 
that to clients that ask, so that you don't need to keep a local copy of 
the client spec file.  I was hoping that there was a way (or, more likely, 
the feature could be added) to have the glusterfsd serve up different 
client spec files by name.

Thanks,

Brent

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, majied.najjar at nationalnet.com wrote:

> Hi Brent,
>
>> But are you referring to a server from which to retrieve your client
>> files, or do you just have local client files?
>
> I have local client files, though they are all managed from a central
> location via diskless booting.
>
>>
>> If you are doing retrieval of different client spec files from a remote
>> server, how do you specify the different files in the glusterfsd spec
>
> I do not reference a client spec file in the glusterfsd spec file.
> However, I do reference the volumes defined in the glusterfsd spec file in
> the client spec file.
>
>> and how do you reference the different client specs when doing the mounts?
>
> I name my client files after my mounts. For example "/home" would be
> "/etc/glusterfs/home.vol" and it would look like this alongside "/var" in
> the fstab:
>
> /etc/glusterfs/home.vol  /home  glusterfs  defaults  0  0
> /etc/glusterfs/var.vol      /var     glusterfs  defaults  0  0
>
> Once it is in the fstab, you can mount it with:
> `mount  /home`
> or
> `mount -t glusterfs /etc/glusterfs/home.vol /home`
>
> I hope I did not miss your question...
>
> Majied
>
>
>
> Majied
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brent
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, majied.najjar at nationalnet.com wrote:
>>
>>> Sure.
>>>
>>> I am actually using a separate client file per mount point referenced in
>>> /etc/fstab  in one implementation.
>>>
>>> Majied
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to have multiple client spec files served from one
>>>> glusterfsd? It would be nice to be able to specify which filesystem you
>>>> want to mount by name.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Brent
>>>>
>>>>
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