[Gluster-users] NFS Ganesha HA w/ GlusterFS

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

On 02/19/2018 11:37 AM, TomK wrote:
> On 2/19/2018 10:55 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> Yep, I noticed a couple of pages including this for 'storhaug
> configuration' off google.  Adding 'mailing list' to the search didn't
> help alot:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/nfs-ganesha/mailman/message/35929089/
> 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/gluster-users/msg33018.html
> 
> Hence the ask here.  storhaug feels like it's not moving with any sort
> of update now.
> 
> Any plans to move back to the previous NFS Ganesha HA model with
> upcoming GlusterFS versions as a result?

No.

(re)writing or finishing storhaug has been on my plate ever since the
guy who was supposed to do it didn't.

I have lots of other stuff to do too. All I can say is it'll get done
when it gets done.


> 
> In the meantime I'll look to cobble up the GlusterFS 3.10 packages and
> try with those per your suggestion.
> 
> What's your thoughts on using HAPROXY / keepalived w/ NFS Ganesha and
> GlusterFS?  Anyone tried this sort of combination?  I want to avoid the
> situation where I have to remount clients as a result of a node failing.
>  In other words, avoid this situation:
> 
> [root at yes01 ~]# cd /n
> -bash: cd: /n: Stale file handle
> [root at yes01 ~]#
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
> 
>> On 02/19/2018 10:24 AM, TomK wrote:
>>> On 2/19/2018 2:39 AM, TomK wrote:
>>> + gluster users as well.  Just read another post on the mailing lists
>>> about a similar ask from Nov which didn't really have a clear answer.
>>
>> That's funny because I've answered questions like this several times.
>>
>> Gluster+Ganesha+Pacemaker-based HA is available up to GlusterFS 3.10.x.
>>
>> If you need HA, that is one "out of the box" option.
>>
>> There's support for using CTDB in Samba for Ganesha HA, and people have
>> used it successfully with Gluster+Ganesha.
>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps there's a way to get NFSv4 work with GlusterFS without NFS
>>> Ganesha then?
>>
>> Not that I'm aware of.
>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>> Hey All,
>>>>
>>>> I've setup GlusterFS on two virtuals and enabled NFS Ganesha on each
>>>> node.  ATM the configs are identical between the two NFS Ganesha
>>>> hosts. (Probably shouldn't be but I'm just testing things out.)
>>>>
>>>> I need HA capability and notice these instructions here:
>>>>
>>>> http://aravindavkgluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Configuring%20HA%20NFS%20Server/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However I don't have package glusterfs-ganesha available on this
>>>> CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) and the maintainer's of CentOS 7
>>>> haven't uploaded some of the 2.5.x packages yet so I can't use that
>>>> version.
>>>>
>>>> glusterfs-api-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>> glusterfs-libs-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>> glusterfs-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>> glusterfs-fuse-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>> glusterfs-server-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>> python2-glusterfs-api-1.1-1.el7.noarch
>>>> glusterfs-client-xlators-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>> glusterfs-cli-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>
>>>> nfs-ganesha-xfs-2.3.2-1.el7.x86_64
>>>> nfs-ganesha-vfs-2.3.2-1.el7.x86_64
>>>> nfs-ganesha-2.3.2-1.el7.x86_64
>>>> nfs-ganesha-gluster-2.3.2-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>
>>>> The only high availability packages are the following but they don't
>>>> come with any instructions that I can find:
>>>>
>>>> storhaug.noarch : High-Availability Add-on for NFS-Ganesha and Samba
>>>> storhaug-nfs.noarch : storhaug NFS-Ganesha module
>>>>
>>>> Given that I'm missing that one package above, will configuring using
>>>> ganesha-ha.conf still work?  Or should I be looking at another option
>>>> alltogether?
>>>>
>>>> Appreciate any help.  Ty!
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> 
> 

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Kaleb