[Gluster-users] Problem with glusterd init.d stop

[Xavier Hernandez]

Hi,

the glusterfs process is the responsible of managing a mount point and 
it is started by the mount operation, not by the glusterd daemon. A 
glusterfs process will be started for each mount of the volume and it 
will be stopped once the volume is umounted.

The glusterfsd processes are the responsible of managing the bricks of a 
volume. They are started when the volume is started (this can happen 
when the glusterd daemon starts if the volume was already marked as 
started or when a 'gluster volume <volname> start' is executed). They 
are stopped when the volume is stopped or a 'glusterfsd stop' is executed.

To manually stop all gluster processes, you should do this:

1. Umount the volume
2. Execute 'gluster volume <volname> stop' or '/etc/init.d/glusterfsd stop'
3. Execute '/etc/init.d/glusterd stop'

Note that if you stop the volume with 'gluster volume <volname> stop', 
it won't automatically start when glusterd is started again, a manual 
'gluster volume <volname> start' will be needed. However a 'glusterfsd 
stop' will kill all glusterfsd processes from all volumes.

Best regards,

Xavi


El 11/11/13 10:15, Emir Imamagic ha escrit:
> Hello,
>
> we are using CentOS 6.4 and GlusterFS 3.4.1 with packages from the 
> following repo:
>
> http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.4/LATEST/CentOS/glusterfs-epel.repo 
>
>
> Package glusterfs-server provides two init.d scripts:
> - glusterd
> - glusterfsd
> Based on the manual we only switched on glusterd and left the 
> glusterfsd switched off.
>
> Everything works fine when starting gluster - glusterd starts all the 
> needed deamons (glusterd, glusterfsd, glusterfs). Stop however doesn't 
> work as expected. Init.d script only stops glusterd daemon, leaving 
> other two running.
>
> Is there some other mechanism to gracefully stop all daemons started 
> by a given glusterd?
>
> Thanks in advance