[Gluster-users] NFS Ganesha HA w/ GlusterFS

[TomK]

On 2/19/2018 12:09 PM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
Sounds good and no problem at all.  Will look out for this update in the 
future.  In the meantime, three's a few things I'll try including your 
suggestion.

Was looking for a sense of direction with the projects and now you've 
given that.  Ty.  Appreciated!

Cheers,
Tom


> 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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Cheers,
Tom K.
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