[Gluster-devel] NFS or not?

[Krishna Srinivas]

On 9/13/07, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am just now getting back to being able to spend some time looking
> into glusterfs, and I have been half paying-attention to the mailing
> list.
>
> My question comes down to with 2 servers and 10 or so client machines,
> should i re-export via NFS the glusterfs mounts on the 2 servers to
> the 10 clients (mounting the glusterfs mount over NFS) or should all
> my clients mount the glusterfs mount using the glusterfs client?

Your clients should use glusterfs client.

>
> Are there any issues with exporting a glusterfs mount over NFS?
> Basically I was planning on setting up two servers each with 1T disk
> raid with AFR to use as a maildir store for my mail cluster and
> wondering how i should mount this on my client machines.

If you use AFR, NFS exporting glusterfs mounted directory has
some issues which we are looking at.

Regards
Krishna