[Gluster-devel] latest TLA has demon showing up as [glusterfs]

Anand Avati avati at zresearch.com
Fri Feb 29 11:33:36 UTC 2008


depends on whether you passed a mountpoint in the command line argument. do
you mean that the glusterfs client is still running after you unmounted? or
did you mean that before unmounting there were two [glusterfs] and after
unmounting there is just one (which would be the server) ?

avati

2008/2/29, Mickey Mazarick <mic at digitaltadpole.com>:
>
> Ah I see! I have an additional comment/question though.
>
> I've noticed that when I unmount a gluster volume on a client the
> [glusterfs] process is still running.  Perhaps it thinks my cleint spec
> is a server.
> I have no instance of "type protocol/server" in the client spec. What
> does it use to determine weather it's a client or a server?
>
> -Mickey Mazarick
>
>
> Anand Avati wrote:
> > Mickey,
> >  in the latest codebase, there are no more server and client programs.
> > there is just one glusterfs (and glusterfsd is a symlink to
> > glusterfs). it behaves either as a client or server according to the
> > volume spec file given.
> >
> >  if the glusterfs program is passed a mountpoint it attaches a fuse
> > translator in a hardcoded way, so this preserves backward
> > compatibility. The new model also allows both protocol/server and
> > mount/fuse (mountability) in the same spec file which can be a
> > performance improvement in NUFA mode of operations.
> >
> > avati
> >
> > 2008/2/29, Mickey Mazarick <mic at digitaltadpole.com
>
> > <mailto:mic at digitaltadpole.com>>:
>
> >
> >     This is very minor but it did break a kill script I wrote.
> >
> >     When I run the latest build, the server daemon shows up as:
> >     [glusterfs]
> >     in the process list.
> >
> >     Just an FYI :-)
> >     Thanks!
> >     -Mickey Mazarick
> >
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>
>
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Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.



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