[Gluster-devel] What tranpsort type in glfs_set_volfile_server() exactly mean ?

[Raghavendra Gowdappa]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Prasanna Kalever" <pkalever at redhat.com>
> To: "gluster-devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
> Cc: "Kaushal Madappa" <kmadappa at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 4:10:24 PM
> Subject: [Gluster-devel] What tranpsort type in glfs_set_volfile_server()	exactly mean ?
> 
> Hey Team,
> 
> 
> My understanding is that @transport argumet in
> glfs_set_volfile_server() is meant for specifying transport used in
> fetching volfile server,
> IIRC which currently supports tcp and unix only...

Yes, its hard-coded to use only "socket" transport. See [1]. However if required its not difficult to add rdma option. However, infiniband need not be present on all nodes.

[1] https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/glusterfsd/src/glusterfsd-mgmt.c#L2132

> 
> The doc here https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/api/src/glfs.h
> +166 shows the rdma as well, which is something I cannot digest.
> 
> 
> Can someone correct me ?
> 
> Have we ever supported volfile fetch over rdma ?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Prasanna
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