[Gluster-users] Announcement: Alpha Release of Native NFS for GlusterFS

[Justice London]

I did indeed start with 'glusterfsd' for the NFS mount!

Justice London
jlondon at lawinfo.com

On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 13:25 -0600, Tejas N. Bhise wrote:
> Justice,
> 
> A quick question - did you start nfs with 'glusterfs' or 'glusterfsd'. If you used 'glusterfs' please retry with 'glusterfsd' and let me know the results.
> 
> We have mentioned in the release notes to use 'glusterfsd', but I saw a couple other users face a problem because they used 'glusterfs' ( probably because of the way unfsd or knfs was used ).
> 
> Regards,
> Tejas.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justice London" <jlondon at lawinfo.com>
> To: "Tejas N. Bhise" <tejas at gluster.com>
> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org, gluster-devel at nongnu.org, nfs-alpha at gluster.com
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 2:39:27 AM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Announcement: Alpha Release of Native NFS for GlusterFS
> 
> I'm sorry.. but I don't know how you guys tested this, but using a
> bare-bones configuration with the NFS translator and a mirror
> configuration between two systems (no performance translators, etc.) I
> can lock up the entire system after writing 160-180megs of data.
> 
> Basically:
> dd if=/dev/full of=testfile bs=1M count=1000 is enough to lock the
> entire machine.
> 
> This is on a CentOS 5.4 system with a xen backend (for testing).
> 
> I don't know what you guys tested with, but I can't get this stable...
> at all.
> 
> Justice London
> jlondon at lawinfo.com
> On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 10:36 -0600, Tejas N. Bhise wrote:
> > Dear Community Users,
> > 
> > Gluster is happy to announce the ALPHA release of the native NFS Server.
> > The native NFS server is implemented as an NFS Translator and hence
> > integrates very well, the NFS protocol on one side and GlusterFS protocol
> > on the other side.
> > 
> > This is an important step in our strategy to extend the benefits of
> > Gluster to other operating system which can benefit from a better NFS
> > based data service, while enjoying all the backend smarts that Gluster
> > provides.
> > 
> > The new NFS Server also strongly supports our efforts towards
> > becoming a virtualization storage of choice.
> > 
> > The release notes of the NFS ALPHA Release are available at -
> > 
> > http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/nfs-alpha/GlusterFS_NFS_Alpha_Release_Notes.pdf
> > 
> > The Release notes describe where RPMs and source code can be obtained
> > and where bugs found in this ALPHA release can be filed. Some examples 
> > on usage are also provided.
> > 
> > Please be aware that this is an ALPHA release and in no way should be
> > used in production. Gluster is not responsible for any loss of data
> > or service resulting from the use of this ALPHA NFS Release.
> > 
> > Feel free to send feedback, comments and questions to: nfs-alpha at gluster.com
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Tejas Bhise.
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