[Gluster-users] How to properly shutdown Gluster (glusterd *and* related processes)

[Patrick Irvine]

Hey,

stopping the glusterd instance does not stop any of the other spawned 
daemons.  I know this for a fact as I start and stop glusterd all the 
time with out it affecting any of the other daemons.

As for stopping the spawned daemons, Craig Carl ??  ( I think that's 
right)  years ago when glusterd first came out said to just kill <pid> 
each of the others.  To restart them your just stop and restart the 
glusterd process and it will respawn any it finds are not already running.

Hope this helps,

Pat.

On 10/04/2013 9:54 AM, Jay Vyas wrote:
> This is a great question, something I've been wondering.
>
> Reposting some details from jeff darcy's email regarding a similar 
> question which i asked could help shed some light on this:
>
> 1) The daemons that run in gluster are:
>
> glusterd = management daemon
>         glusterfsd = per-brick daemon
>         glustershd = self-heal daemon
> glusterfs = usually client-side, but also NFS on servers
>
> 2) The lifecycle of the daemons:
> *** The others are all started from glusterd, in response to volume 
> start and stop commands ***
> *** They're actually all the same executable with different 
> translators ***
> *** glusterfs-server = the server side gluster implementation, which 
> needs to be instaled for serving gluster data ***
>
> 3) When glusterd starts up: It spawns any daemons that "should" be 
> running (according to which volumes are started, which have NFS or 
> replication enabled, etc.) and seem to be missing.
>
>
> So...
>
> If thats the case then I would say that ***stopping glusterd*** should 
> invert the "starting" of the above processes ... right?
> But I would leave it to the gluster vets to answer this definitively...
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Guido De Rosa 
> <guido.derosa at vemarsas.it <mailto:guido.derosa at vemarsas.it>> wrote:
>
>     Hello list,
>
>     I've installed GlusterFS via Debian experimental packages, version
>     3.4.0~qa9realyalpha2-1.
>
>     ( For the records, the reason I use an alpha release is that I want
>     this feature:
>     http://raobharata.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/qemu-glusterfs-native-integration/
>     )
>
>     I've also followed the Quick Start Guide and now I have a cluster of 2
>     virtual machines, each contributing to a Gluster volume with one brick
>     each.
>
>     Now my issue:
>
>     Let's assume no machine has actually mounted the Gluster volume.
>
>     If I do:
>
>         ps aux | grep gluster
>
>     I get a couple of daemons: glusterd, glusterfsd, glusterfs.
>
>     If I do:
>
>         /etc/init.d/glusterfs-server stop
>
>     I find (re-issuing ps) that glusterd has been terminated BUT the other
>     processes (glusterfs and glusterfsd instances) *are still running*.
>
>     (The same happens if I manually kill the glusterd process).
>
>     Is this normal? Doesn't this leave the system in an inconsistent
>     state? (For example on system shutdown).
>
>     Should the init script be fixed? (maybe including "gluster volume
>     stop" or something)?
>
>     What's the best practice to terminate *all* Gluster related process
>     (especially on system shutdown/reboot)?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Guido
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> -- 
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