[Gluster-users] Making the mount server/point highly available

[Joe Julian]

On 10/16/2012 05:57 AM, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
> On 10/16/12 01:26, Robert van Leeuwen wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to make sure that we can keep mounting gluster volumes even if
>> one node is down.
>> For this we would need something to keep the mount point highly 
>> available.
>> Am I safe to assume that putting port 24007 behind our load-balancer
>> will do this?
>> As far as I can see regular gluster traffic does not use this port and
>> it looks like it is used for the mount process.
>>
>> Is this correct?
>> Can I safely do this or will bad things happen?
>
> I use keepalived to keep a well known IP available for the volume info 
> to be retrieved from.  Once the client has the volume info, it talks 
> directly to the bricks.
>
> Unless you are NFS mounting the volume...
>
Use round-robin DNS or the backupvolfile-server mount option.