[Gluster-users] Can a gluster server be an NFS client ?

[Prasun Gera]

Thanks. Can you tell me what this achieves, and what the side-effects, if
any, are ? Btw, the NFS mounts on the gluster server are unrelated to what
the gluster server itself is exporting. They are regular nfs mounts from a
different NFS server.

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Jason Brooks <jbrooks at redhat.com> wrote:

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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Prasun Gera" <prasun.gera at gmail.com>
> > To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 1:47:32 PM
> > Subject: [Gluster-users] Can a gluster server be an NFS client ?
> >
> > I am seeing some erratic behavior w.r.t. the NFS service on the gluster
> > servers (RHS 3.0). The nfs service fails to start occasionally and
> randomly
> > with
> >
> > Could not register with portmap 100021 4 38468
> > Program  NLM4 registration failed
> >
>
> I've encountered this before -- I had to disable file locking,
> adding Lock=False to /etc/nfsmount.conf
>
> > This appears to be related to
> > http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2014-October/019215.html
> ,
> > although I'm not sure what the resolution is.
> >
> > The gluster servers use autofs to mount user home directories and other
> > sundry directories. I could verify that stopping autofs and then starting
> > the gluster volume seems to solve the problem. Starting autofs after
> > gluster seems to work fine too. What's the right way to handle this ?
> >
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