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

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

On 06.05.2011 22:57, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

> 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:
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> mount -t glusterfs server1:/test-volume /mnt/glusterfs
>
> Our mount will die if server1 is offline.

I was mistaken - I see it's not the case, which is good.

Still, what /etc/fstab entry should the clients use in order to be able 
to mount glusterfs, if one of the servers (the one specified in 
/etc/fstab) dies?

> 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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