[Gluster-users] simple 2 server replication question - how to mount for HA

[Craig Carl]

Ben -
The ping-timeout value is set by default to 42 seconds. I recommend
reducing that to at least 25 seconds. Details on the volume options are
here -

http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Setting_Volume_Options


Thanks,

Craig

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Craig Carl
Senior Systems Engineer
Gluster

On 12/02/2010 08:24 AM, Jacob Shucart wrote:
> Ben,
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> If you're using Gluster 3.1.1 then you don't need to do anything with vol
> files including mounting using them.  When you mount using -t glusterfs as
> an option, you can just point to the hostname:/VOLFILE and Gluster will
> automatically retrieve vol file information and open parallel connections
> to the Gluster storage nodes.  This also means you don't need to mount
> different hostnames to different clients since the hostname you use is
> only used for the initial configuration retrieval.  Also, when using -t
> glusterfs to mount, your connection will already be highly available since
> the Gluster native protocol has failover built in to it.  If you are
> testing failover, just be aware that there is a ping-timeout setting
> described in the documentation that handles how long Gluster will wait for
> a server if it is unable to contact a server.
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> -Jacob
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
> [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Ben Blakley
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 10:49 PM
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] simple 2 server replication question - how to
> mount for HA
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> We are setting up a redundant storage cluster with 2 servers with Gluster
> FS 3.1
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> http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Conf
> iguring_Distributed_Replicated_Volumes
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> We would create a volume using this:
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> #gluster volume create test-volume replica 2 transport tcp server1:/exp1
> server2:/exp2
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> Now my question is how do we mount the clients in a HA fashion so that if
> one of the servers goes down things stay online?
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> #mount -t glusterfs [-o <options>] <volumeserver>:<volumeid> <mount‐
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> with a single server then there is an issue if that server goes down,
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> I understand we could point to a volume file instead,  could that volume
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> #mount -t glusterfs [-o <options>] <path/to/volumefile> <mountpoint>
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> Should/is the replication done on the server side or the client side?  It
> seems it is being replicated by the server with this “replica 2” volume,
> so the question is how do we do the mount?
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> Is it possible that the volume information is synched between the 2
> servers so that we can point the clients in our environment to either
> Gluster servers?
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> Many thanks,
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