[Gluster-users] gluster NFS/rpcbind conflict

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Yannick Perret <
yannick.perret at liris.cnrs.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
> just a note to give feedback on a known problem:
> I have 2 replica servers and for some reasons I use NFS mounts on one of
> my clients (because it is an old one with which I have troubles with
> glusterfs native client).
> I managed to performs NFS mounts from on of the servers but failed on the
> other.
>
> I was happy to find a thread about this problem: it is rpcbind started by
> default with "-w" option that lead rpcbind to re-use NFS-server ports even
> if no more NFS server is running (but it did on this machine). Removing the
> "-w" option and restarting rpcbind works fine.
>

+Niels (who maintains NFS)


>
> This mail is only to suggest to add this on documentations pages for
> glusterfs as it seems than other people met this problem.
> In a more general way why not adding a "troubleshooting" section to
> documentation? I parsed official documentations and found the solution
> reading bugreports threads. It seems that this problem still exists on (at
> least) recent Debians - that I'm using - so it may save time to other
> users.
>

> Other suggestion: indicating on docs that it may be disk-saving to switch
> volumes to WARNING level-log (for clients). INFO is far too verbose for
> production (at least on 3.6.x) and should only be used when starting using
> glusterfs.
>

It has both pros and cons. If you were to report problems, it is a bit more
easier to solve the problem if we have INFO logs as well as they contain
additional data that might be missed if we make default to be WARNING. So I
guess it is a trade-off.


>
>
> Note: this is just improvement suggestions, that may save time to other
> people. glusterfs is very fine for our needs and we are happy to use it :)
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Y.
>
>
>
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Pranith
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