[Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

[Rajesh Amaravathi]

Actually, if you want to mount *any* nfs volumes(of Gluster) OR
exports (of kernel-nfs-server), you cannot do it with locking on
a system where a glusterfs(nfs process) is running(since 3.3.0).
However, if its ok to mount without locking, then you should be
able to do it on localhost.

Regards, 
Rajesh Amaravathi, 
Software Engineer, GlusterFS 
RedHat Inc. 

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Coulson" <david at davidcoulson.net>
To: "Tomasz Chmielewski" <mangoo at wpkg.org>
Cc: "Rajesh Amaravathi" <rajesh at redhat.com>, "Gluster General Discussion List" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 3:16:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?


On 7/13/12 5:29 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>
> Killing the option to use NFS mounts on localhost is certainly quite 
> the opposite to my performance needs!
>

He was saying you can't run kernel NFS server and gluster NFS server at 
the same time, on the same host. There is nothing stopping you from 
mounting localhost:/volume on all your boxes. That is exactly how our 
3.2.5 and 3.3.0 environments access volumes for the performance reasons 
you identified.