[Gluster-users] nfs-ganesha with disperse volume

[Niels de Vos]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 02:04:53PM +0200, Serkan Çoban wrote:
> Thanks, I understand it. Now I am trying to export a volume through
> nfs-ganesha but have a question again.
> In the EXPORT block in ganesha.conf, for the export path I need the
> enter the full path to gluster volume.
> So this means that I need to mount the gluster volume on the server
> right? Currently I don't have gluster volume mounted on servers.
> If this is true each server also will be a client right?

No, you do not need to mount the Gluster volume on the system that has
NFS-Ganesha running. The documentation should explain pretty good what
you need to configure:

  http://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/NFS-Ganesha%20GlusterFS%20Intergration/

Niels

> 
> Serkan
> 
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Serkan Çoban wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I want to ask if we can use nfs-ganesha with disperse volumes? If so,
> >> how the underlying process works? Gluster client split the file to
> >> chunks and write each chunk to different server in cluster; in case of
> >> nfs how this will work?
> >
> > Yes, that should work just fine.
> > The NFS server acts as a Gluster client. So, on one side the NFS-server
> > speaks the standard NFS protocol to the clients, on the other side it
> > talks to the bricks in the volume. The logic of the distribution and
> > splitting of data is done inside the NFS-server (by libgfapi in
> > FSAL_GLUSTER for NFS-Ganesha).
> >
> > HTH,
> > Niels
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