[Gluster-users] new user help

[Liam Slusser]

answer inline...

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Mag Gam<magawake at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to setup gluster 2.0 and I am a new user.

Welcome.

>
> Basically, I been trying to follow the tutorials but I am having no luck.
>
> My setup is 2 servers and 10 clients for now.
>
> Couple of questions:
>
> On the client, do I have to have FUSE module?

If you want to mount the filesystem, you need to use FUSE.  You can
also nfs mount it if you setup a unfs server on another client and
share the gluster mount.

> Do I have to run all this as root?

yes to mount the filesystem

> How can I check what clients are mounted on the server side?

Not really an easy way to do it, however i use... (in linux)

netstat -pan | grep EST | grep gluster_listen_port

> How can I check weather I can talk to the server via gluster tools
> (not ping :-)?

Try telneting to the gluster_listen_port - if it answers its up.

liam