[Gluster-devel] posix-locks and afr

[Anand Avati]

Jeroen,
 what is the version of fuse (libfuse and kernel module) which you are
using?

avati

2008/5/12 Jeroen Koekkoek <jtm.koekkoek at home.nl>:

> Hi Krishna,
>
> I forgot to mention that it's going to be a "p2p" cluster. It will consist
> of two servers, mta1 and mta2, that will run both a server and a client
> instance.
>
> Again, thanks in advance.
>
> Regards, Jeroen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeroen Koekkoek [mailto:jtm.koekkoek at home.nl]
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 9:31 AM
> To: 'Krishna Srinivas'
> Subject: RE: [Gluster-devel] posix-locks and afr
>
> Hi Krishna,
>
> I'm sending my current configuration. I used about the same configuration
> on
> the server side. The afr and mtaX-mailstore volumes where on the
> serverside
> before, but that didn't enable fcntl locking.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards, Jeroen
>
> Below is my configuration:
>
> ---- glusterfs-server.vol ----
> # Mailstore dataspace
> volume mta1-mailstore-ds
>        type storage/posix
>        option directory /var/vmail_ds
> end-volume
>
> volume mta1-mailstore-ds-locks
>        type features/posix-locks
>        option mandatory on
>        subvolumes mta1-mailstore-ds
> end-volume
>
> # Mailstore namespace
> volume mta1-mailstore-ns
>        type storage/posix
>        option directory /var/vmail_ns
> end-volume
>
> volume mta1-mailstore-ns-locks
>        type features/posix-locks
>        option mandatory on
>        subvolumes mta1-mailstore-ns
> end-volume
>
> # Export
> volume server
>        type protocol/server
>        option transport-type tcp/server
>        subvolumes mta1-mailstore-ds-locks mta1-mailstore-ns-locks
>
>        option auth.ip.mta1-mailstore-ds-locks.allow *
>        option auth.ip.mta1-mailstore-ns-locks.allow *
> end-volume
> ---- /glusterfs-server.vol ----
>
> ---- glusterfs-client.vol ----
> volume mta1-mailstore-ds-locks
>        type protocol/client
>        option transport-type tcp/client
>        option remote-host mta1
>        option remote-subvolume mta1-mailstore-ds-locks
>        option transport-timeout 10
> end-volume
>
> volume mta2-mailstore-ds-locks
>        type protocol/client
>        option transport-type tcp/client
>        option remote-host mta2
>        option remote-subvolume mta2-mailstore-ds-locks
>        option transport-timeout 10
> end-volume
>
> volume mta-mailstore
>        type cluster/afr
>        subvolumes mta2-mailstore-ds-locks mta1-mailstore-ds-locks
>        option self-heal on
> end-volume
> ---- /glusterfs-client.vol ----
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: krishna.zresearch at gmail.com [mailto:krishna.zresearch at gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Krishna Srinivas
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 8:47 AM
> To: Jeroen Koekkoek
> Cc: gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] posix-locks and afr
>
> Jeroen,
>
> Can you detail on the setup including the conf files?
>
> Thanks
> Krishna
>
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Jeroen Koekkoek <jtm.koekkoek at home.nl>
> wrote:
> > Hi Everybody,
> >
> > I'm planning on using glusterfs for the mailservers in my organisation.
> I
> > configured glusterfs to do afr on the server side e.g. the client only
> > connects to the localhost and the glusterfs daemon listening on the
> > localhost replicates the files over the network. Since I need file
> locking,
> > I used posix-lock/translator volumes and let the afr volume use the
> > posix-lock volumes on both hosts as subvolumes. That however doesn't
> work.
> I
> > can still lock the same file on both hosts at the same time.
> >
> > After doing some testing I found out that if I configure the client to
> do
> > afr and use the posix-lock volumes as subvolumes in the client, fcntl
> > locking does work.
> >
> > I'd like to know if more people ran into the same problem and if anybody
> has
> > a solution. I'd also like to know if there are downsides to my current
> > configuration.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards, Jeroen
> >
> >
> >
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