[Gluster-users] NFS availability

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:47:30 +0000
Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 09:18:26AM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > > The client will still fail (in most cases) since host1 (if I follow you) is 
> > > part of the gluster groupset. Certainly if it's a distributed-only, maybe not 
> > > if it's a dist/repl gluster.  But if host1 goes down, the client will not be 
> > > able to find a gluster vol to mount.
> > 
> > For sure it will not fail if replication is used. 
> 
> Aside: it will *fail* if the client reboots, and /etc/fstab has
> server1:/volname, and server1 is the one which failed.

Well, this is exactly the reason we generally deny to fetch the volfile from
the server. This whole idea is obvious nonsense for exactly the reason you
described.

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Regards,
Stephan