[Gluster-users] new user help

[Mag Gam]

Wow. Thankyou for the quick responses.

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Liam Slusser<lslusser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>