[Gluster-users] [SPAM?] Do clients need to run glusterd?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

On 06.05.2011 22:44, Vikas Gorur wrote:
> The clients do *not* need to run glusterd.

So what is the recommended way of mounting gluster volumes?


Assuming we have a distributed replica of two gluster servers:

server1-server2


And several clients (client1, client2, ..., clientN).

If we use the following command line:

	mount -t glusterfs server1:/test-volume /mnt/glusterfs

Our mount will die if server1 is offline.


Similar, if we use this entry in /etc/fstab:

server1:/test-volume /mnt/glusterfs glusterfs defaults,_netdev 0 0

If server1 is offline, but server2 is online, the client will not be 
able to access the data.


Could anyone shed some light on achieving high availability with glusterfs?



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