[Gluster-devel] Connecting via unix socket instead of IP socket

[Amar S. Tumballi]

I will be doing it today, and will reply back in this thread.

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Dan Parsons <dparsons at nyip.net> wrote:

> Any luck on documenting this? I'd relaly like to set it up.
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> Dan Parsons
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> On May 10, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:
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>  Hi Gordan,
> > "option transport-type unix/server" is available. Even better approach
> > is to
> > run in single address mode (server and client merged into single
> > process).
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> > I will have Amar document it.
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> > We are also introducing binary protocol and non-blocking sockets in the
> > next release which will improve performance significantly.
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> > Gordan Bobic wrote:
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> > > Is there a way to mount locally via a unix domain socket rather than
> > > via loopback interface? It seems rather wasteful to be passing all the
> > > traffic through the TCP/IP stack for a local mount in cases when the server
> > > is also a client for the shared mount.
> > > i.e. is there something like "option transport-type unix/client"?
> > > Gordan
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