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

Mickey Mazarick mic at digitaltadpole.com
Fri Feb 29 19:00:42 UTC 2008


No, not noticeably. I'll leave it running to see what it does.

-Mic

Anand Avati wrote:
> After you unmount, is the cpu consuption going up?
>
> avati
>
> 2008/2/29, Mickey Mazarick <mic at digitaltadpole.com 
> <mailto:mic at digitaltadpole.com>>:
>
>     It's noting that complicated...
>     one mount one process that sticks around. I am using ib-verbs btw.
>
>     [root at RTPST205 ~]# ps -ef |grep
>     gluster
>     root     14423 13814  0 15:14 pts/1    00:00:00 grep gluster
>     [root at RTPST205 ~]# /usr/local/sbin/glusterfs -l
>
>     /var/glustersystemclient.log -f /etc/glusterfs-system.vol -d
>     disable /system
>
>     [root at RTPST205 ~]# ps -ef |grep gluster
>     root     10972     1  0 12:16 ?        00:00:01
>     [glusterfs]
>
>     root     14438 13814  0 15:16 pts/1    00:00:00 grep gluster
>     [root at RTPST205 ~]# umount /system
>     [root at RTPST205 ~]# ps -ef |grep gluster
>     root     10972     1  0 12:16 ?        00:00:02
>     [glusterfs]
>
>     root     14451 13814  0 15:17 pts/1    00:00:00 grep gluster
>
>
>     -Mic
>
>
>     Sascha Ottolski wrote:
>     > Am Freitag 29 Februar 2008 12:33:36 schrieb Anand Avati:
>     >
>     >> 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) ?
>     >>
>     >
>     > if I my add my 2 cents: as I reported in an earlier posting, it is
>     > possible to mount the same mount-point several times, which
>     results in
>     > serveral glusterfs processes running. in such a case, you need
>     to kill
>     > all of them or umount several times.
>     >
>     > of course, it would be best to prevent a second mount of a already
>     > mounted gluster share (someone posted a recipe on how one could to
>     > this; may this should be patched into the sources?).
>     >
>     >
>     > Cheers, Sascha
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >> avati
>     >>
>     >
>     >
>     >> 2008/2/29, Mickey Mazarick <mic at digitaltadpole.com
>     <mailto: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>
>     >>>>
>     >>>> <mailto: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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