[Gluster-users] Can gluster export be nfs exported too?

[Tejas N. Bhise]

Jeremy,

Exporting of same (local or locally mounted ) volume/filesystem using two different protocols is possible in theory but very difficult to implement. Each exporter usually has some housekeeping information on the data it exports and in most implementations two exporter do not share this information. This is what makes it difficult, though not impossible. Look up ctdb and SAMBA and you will understand what I am trying to say.

Regards,
Tejas.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Enos" <jenos at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: "Raghavendra G" <raghavendra at gluster.com>
Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 1:16:18 PM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Can gluster export be nfs exported too?

Second question:
Even if it's not supported, is it theoretically feasible?

     Jeremy

On 3/2/2010 10:16 PM, Raghavendra G wrote:
> No, its not supported to export glusterfs backend directories using NFS.
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Jeremy Enos <jenos at ncsa.uiuc.edu 
> <mailto:jenos at ncsa.uiuc.edu>> wrote:
>
>     If I have a single system exporting gluster, can I also export
>     that same directory via NFS w/o Gluster in the loop, or is it
>     different somehow?  I assume I definitely can't do that on any
>     striped setup for obvious reasons.  (I realize I could NFS export
>     the gluster mounted volume, but I'm talking about the gluster
>     export volume here)
>     thx-
>
>        Jeremy
>
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