[Gluster-devel] Gluster Recovery

[Anand Avati]

Yes, this is a solution for now, you can have multiple protocol/server
volumes in the server.vol running on differnt ports each having its
own client-volume-filename

avati

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:35:01PM -0400, majied.najjar at nationalnet.com wrote:
> Ah.  I understand.
> 
> Maybe you could have glusterfsd listen on multiple ports. Each mountpoint
> could be assigned to its own port which if called, would yield its own
> client spec.
> 
> Majied
> 
> 
> 
> > 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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
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