[Gluster-users] Reasons for recommending nfs-ganesha

[Joe Julian]

On May 22, 2017 5:20:05 AM PDT, "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kkeithle at redhat.com> wrote:
>On 05/19/2017 08:57 AM, te-yamauchi at usen.co.jp wrote:
>> I currently use version 3.10.2.
>> When nfs is enabled, the following warning is displayed.
>> Why is nfs-ganesha recommended?
>> Is there something wrong with gluster nfs?
>> 
>
>This is hardly new. The migration to NFS-Ganesha started with 3.8.0 and
>there has been discussion about it on the Gluster community mailing
>lists over the past two years.
>
>gluster nfs (or gnfs) only supports NFSv3. The gnfs part doesn't have
>High Availability (HA) out of the box. The design of gnfs doesn't lend
>itself to adding NFSv4 and beyond.
>
>NFS-Ganesha has NFSv3, NFSv4, NFSv4.1, NFSv4.2, pNFS — and if you care
>about it, 9P support. It's a better implementation, and it's being
>actively developed and maintained.
>
>Besides kernel NFS (knfs) it doesn't make sense to pay for maintaining
>two very different NFS implementations. (IOW Red Hat isn't going to pay
>to maintain and develop two different implementations. Someone else may
>step up and maintain gnfs.)
>
>You can keep using gnfs, but eventually you should switch to
>NFS-Ganesha
>because that's where resources are devoted — for fixing bugs and adding
>features.
>
>You *should* switch, but nobody is going to force you to switch. The
>gnfs part will always be there and you'll always be able to use it.

To be accurate, gnfs is disabled by default now so you would have to enable it for your volume.

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