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

[Gordan Bobic]

So the same volume config file can be used to start up the server and 
mount the FS?
i.e.

# glusterfsd -f /etc/glusterfs/foo.vol

and

/etc/glusterfs/foo.vol /foo glusterfs defaults 0 0
in /etc/fstab?

Or is an additional setup/option required somewhere?
Or is only one of the above actually required? Would in this 
configuration mounting the FS get the server process going implicitly, 
since it's now the same process?

Gordan

Amar S. Tumballi wrote:
> Well,
>  I have completed a wiki page with example and few explanation here:
> 
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Unify_NUFA_with_single_process
> 
> Though the example is for unify with nufa scheduler, it can be used for 
> any translators, like afr, stripe etc. (note: keep the order of 
> subvolume same in case of afr and stripe).
> 
> Regards,
> Amar
> 
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Amar S. Tumballi <amar at zresearch.com 
> <mailto:amar at zresearch.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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
>     <mailto:dparsons at nyip.net>> wrote:
> 
>         Any luck on documenting this? I'd relaly like to set it up.
> 
> 
>         Dan Parsons
> 
> 
> 
>         On May 10, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:
> 
>             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).
> 
>             I will have Amar document it.
> 
>             We are also introducing binary protocol and non-blocking
>             sockets in the
>             next release which will improve performance significantly.
> 
>             --
>             Anand Babu Periasamy
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> 
> 
> 
>             Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 
>                 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