[Gluster-devel] Being Gluster NFS off

[Atin Mukherjee]

Just to clarify my patch only takes care of introducing the required
changes in 3.9 and not in 3.8. A seperate patch needs to be sent out to
ensure nfs service comes up for the volumes which were created pre upgrade
to 3.8 and have default configuration.

On Monday 10 October 2016, Jiffin Tony Thottan <jthottan at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to list out  glusterd issues with the 3.8 feature "Gluster NFS
> being off by default".
>
> As per current implementation,
>
> 1.) On a freshly installed setup with 3.8/3.9, if u create a volume, then
> Gluster NFS won't
>
>      come by default and in the vol info we can see " nfs.disable on"
>
> 2.) For existing volumes(created in 3.7 or below), there are two
> possibilities
>
> a.) if there are only volumes with default configuration, Gluster NFS
> won't come up and in
>
>      vol info "nfs.disable on" won't displayed. In volume status command
> pid of Gluster NFS
>
>     will be N/A.
>
> b.) if there is a volume with explicit "nfs.disable off" set , then after
> upgrade Gluster NFS will
>
> come and export all the existing volumes and vol info will have similar
> value as a.)
>
> Currently three bugs[1,2,3] have opened to address these issues.
>
> As per 3.8 release note, gluster nfs should be up for all existing volumes
> with default
>
> configuration. We are planning to change this behavior from 3.9 onwards
> and Atin send out a patch[4]
>
> With his patch after upgrade all the existing volumes with default
> configuration will have
>
> nfs.disable value set to on explicitly in the vol info. So Gluster NFS
> won't export that volume at all
>
> and gluster v status does not display status of Gluster NFS server.
>
> This patch also solves bugs 2 and 3 as well
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383006 - gluster nfs not
> coming for existing volumes on 3.8
>
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383005 - getting n/a
> entry in volume status command
>
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1379223 - nfs.disable:
> on" is not showing in Vol info by default
>                               for the 3.7.x volumes after updating to 3.9.0
>
> [4] http://review.gluster.org/#/c/15568/
>
> Regards,
> Jiffin
>
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