Fwd: [Gluster-devel] Best practices?

[Brandon Lamb]

On 6/3/07, James Porter <jameslporter at gmail.com> wrote:
> that is a good question, and how would you compile glusterfs and glusterfsd
> ?
>
> On 6/3/07, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering if there was any input on best practices of setting up
> > a 2 or 3 server cluster.
> >
> > My question has to do with where to run glusterfsd (server) and where
> > to run glusterfs (mounting as a client).
> >
> > Should I keep the servers that are actually handling the drives and
> > exporting the glusterfs ONLY act as servers?
> >
> > ie should i run glusterfsd on 2 or 3 servers and then need another 1+
> > client machines that mount?
> >
> > Or can I safely have the server and client running on the same machines?
> >
> > does that make sense? not sure how else to ask it haha
> >
> >
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I have a 2 server test setup and i just did a ./configure in the
glusterfs-1.3.0-pre4 directory. Both run glusterfsd exporting
/home/export and both connect as clients to themselves and the other
and use the AFR translator using *:2

seems to work, but I dont know if this is a good practice or if i am
asking for trouble or what.

Also, does this list have a top or bottom post preference? Top is more
natural but some lists are picky.

=P