[Gluster-users] Docs on setting up translators

Todd Stansell todd at stansell.org
Thu Aug 1 17:17:45 UTC 2013


I opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=983317 last month to
request essentially the same thing.  I suggested adding 'volume get' to mirror
the 'volume set' command where it would show what all options are set to,
whether they are set to default values or overridden, etc.  'set help' would
be used to get more detailed information about each option.

Todd

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:04:37PM -0500, Nicholas Majeran wrote:
> Is there a way to easily see all options set|unset hidden or otherwise?
> 
> I've had similar frustration as Joel, and I think something like the 
> "options" command in NetApp for Gluster would be extremely helpful.
> 
> 
> On 08/01/2013 11:51 AM, Jeff Darcy wrote:
> >On 08/01/2013 12:25 PM, Joel Young wrote:
> >>So looking at "Translator performance/io-threads" section I see a
> >>snippet of configuration file (shown in violation of the philosophy
> >>statement below).  Adapting from that I guess I should type:
> >>
> >>"gluster volume set home performance.io-threads 32"
> >
> >AFAICT (looking at current 3.4+ code) the option name is now 
> >client-io-threads
> >and it's boolean, so the correct command would be:
> >
> >    gluster volume set home performance.client-io-threads on
> >
> >>But a little lower in orange there is "thread-count Number of threads
> >>to keep in the thread pool."  So I figure I should type:
> >>
> >>"gluster volume set home performance.thread-count 32"
> >
> >If you don't set io-thread-count (this name changed too) explicitly, 
> >then the
> >io-threads translator will try to auto-scale the number of threads. So 
> >enabling
> >io-threads without setting a count is reasonable, but setting a count 
> >without
> >enabling would be meaningless. I wonder if we check that.
> >
> >>But then I check my self by looking at
> >>http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Setting_Volume_Options 
> >>
> >>which I found by googling for "gluster volume set"
> >>
> >>which shows "performance.io-thread-count" as the option available.
> >>But is that current for 3.4.0?  Backing up the URL tree I find docs
> >>for 3.3.0.  Digging in to these 3.3.0 docs which are only published as
> >>a pdf or html tar ball at:
> >>http://www.gluster.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Gluster_File_System-3.3.0-Administration_Guide-en-US.pdf 
> >>
> >>it seems to still be correct then.  The admin guide doesn't seem to be
> >>published for 3.4 so maybe it will work, maybe it won't.
> >>
> >>What does it mean that "translators can be loaded"?  That statement
> >>implies that I have to do an action to load a translator and then I
> >>can set options.  I think that translators being loaded is something
> >>that the user doesn't need to know about?  It is happening
> >>automatically when an option is set or changed with gluster volume
> >>set"?
> >
> >That looks like another holdover from the older style of 
> >configuration. Yes,
> >from a "would the code work" perspective, io-threads could be loaded at
> >multiple points on either the client or the server. However, from a 
> >"can I get
> >the CLI to do it" perspective it's loaded exactly one place on the 
> >client.
> >
> >>I see on the devel list that there is a discussion about revamping the
> >>docs.  Am I right that some of this language has been carried forward
> >>from gluster 2.x days and isn't really quite accurate now?
> >
> >Exactly.
> >
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