[Gluster-users] nfs-ganesha with disperse volume

[Serkan Çoban]

Ok got it, thank you very much for your help.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 04:18:26PM +0200, Serkan Çoban wrote:
>> Below is the snippet from ganesha.conf documentation, what will be the
>> Path if i don't need to mount gluster volume on server?
>>
>> EXPORT{
>> Export_Id = 1 ; # Export ID unique to each export
>> Path = "volume_path"; # Path of the volume to be exported. Eg: "/test_volume"
>
> This is the path that can be mounted by NFS-clients. NFSv3 will be able
> to show this path when you execute "showmount $NFS_SERVER".
>
> If you set the Path="/test_volume" like the example, an NFS-client will
> be able to do:
>
>   # mount -t nfs $NFS_SERVER:/test_volume /mnt
>
> Cheers,
> Niels
>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 02:04:53PM +0200, Serkan Çoban wrote:
>> >> Thanks, I understand it. Now I am trying to export a volume through
>> >> nfs-ganesha but have a question again.
>> >> In the EXPORT block in ganesha.conf, for the export path I need the
>> >> enter the full path to gluster volume.
>> >> So this means that I need to mount the gluster volume on the server
>> >> right? Currently I don't have gluster volume mounted on servers.
>> >> If this is true each server also will be a client right?
>> >
>> > No, you do not need to mount the Gluster volume on the system that has
>> > NFS-Ganesha running. The documentation should explain pretty good what
>> > you need to configure:
>> >
>> >   http://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/NFS-Ganesha%20GlusterFS%20Intergration/
>> >
>> > Niels
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Serkan
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Serkan Çoban wrote:
>> >> >> Hi,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I want to ask if we can use nfs-ganesha with disperse volumes? If so,
>> >> >> how the underlying process works? Gluster client split the file to
>> >> >> chunks and write each chunk to different server in cluster; in case of
>> >> >> nfs how this will work?
>> >> >
>> >> > Yes, that should work just fine.
>> >> > The NFS server acts as a Gluster client. So, on one side the NFS-server
>> >> > speaks the standard NFS protocol to the clients, on the other side it
>> >> > talks to the bricks in the volume. The logic of the distribution and
>> >> > splitting of data is done inside the NFS-server (by libgfapi in
>> >> > FSAL_GLUSTER for NFS-Ganesha).
>> >> >
>> >> > HTH,
>> >> > Niels