Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-19 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:56:04AM -0400, Rajesh Amaravathi wrote: As to whether we can disable parts of kernel NFS (I'm assuming e.g NLM), I think its not really necessary since we can mount other exports with nolock option. If we take out NLM or disable NLM at the kernel level, then every

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-19 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:16:24AM -0400, Krishna Srinivas wrote: It was pretty confusing to read this thread. Hope I can clarify the questions here. Thanks. I was confused. The other discussion in this thread was related to NLM which has been implemented in 3.3.0. This is to support locking

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-18 Thread William L. Sebok
-users@gluster.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 5:38:48 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not? Sorry my question was too vague. What I meant to ask is if it is possible, since there is a conflict between the locking requests from the kernel's NFS

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-17 Thread Rajesh Amaravathi
To: Rajesh Amaravathi raj...@redhat.com Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski man...@wpkg.org, Gluster General Discussion List gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 5:28:04 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not? Was that introduced by the same

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-17 Thread Whit Blauvelt
9:56:28 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not? Say, is it possible to compile a kernel without whatever part of its NFS support competes with Gluster's locking? Whit On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:14:27AM -0400, Rajesh Amaravathi wrote

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-17 Thread Rajesh Amaravathi
gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 5:38:48 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not? Sorry my question was too vague. What I meant to ask is if it is possible, since there is a conflict between the locking requests from the kernel's

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-16 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Chmielewski man...@wpkg.org, Gluster General Discussion List gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 5:28:04 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not? Was that introduced by the same person who thought that binding to sequential

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-13 Thread James Kahn
Try 3.3.0 - 3.2.6 has issues with NFS in general (memory leaks, etc). -Original Message- From: Tomasz Chmielewski man...@wpkg.org Date: Thursday, 12 July 2012 5:56 PM To: Gluster General Discussion List gluster-users@gluster.org Subject: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-13 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
: Thursday, 12 July 2012 5:56 PM To: Gluster General Discussion List gluster-users@gluster.org Subject: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not? Hi, are NFS mounts made on a single server (i.e. where glusterd is running) supposed to be stable (with gluster 3.2.6

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-13 Thread Rajesh Amaravathi
Original Message - From: Tomasz Chmielewski man...@wpkg.org To: James Kahn jk...@idea11.com.au Cc: Gluster General Discussion List gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 1:51:15 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not? On 07/13

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-13 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
On 07/13/2012 05:08 PM, Rajesh Amaravathi wrote: The issue was reported earlier, but I don't see any references it was fixed in 3.3.0: Deadlock happens when writing a file big enough to fill the filesystem cache and kernel is trying to flush it to free some memory for

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-13 Thread David Coulson
On 7/13/12 5:29 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Killing the option to use NFS mounts on localhost is certainly quite the opposite to my performance needs! He was saying you can't run kernel NFS server and gluster NFS server at the same time, on the same host. There is nothing stopping you

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-13 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
On 07/13/2012 05:46 PM, David Coulson wrote: On 7/13/12 5:29 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Killing the option to use NFS mounts on localhost is certainly quite the opposite to my performance needs! He was saying you can't run kernel NFS server and gluster NFS server at the same time, on

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-13 Thread Rajesh Amaravathi
, 2012 3:16:38 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not? On 7/13/12 5:29 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Killing the option to use NFS mounts on localhost is certainly quite the opposite to my performance needs! He was saying you can't run kernel NFS

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-13 Thread David Coulson
. - Original Message - From: David Coulson da...@davidcoulson.net To: Tomasz Chmielewski man...@wpkg.org Cc: Rajesh Amaravathi raj...@redhat.com, Gluster General Discussion List gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 3:16:38 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd

Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-13 Thread Rajesh Amaravathi
- From: David Coulson da...@davidcoulson.net To: Rajesh Amaravathi raj...@redhat.com Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski man...@wpkg.org, Gluster General Discussion List gluster-users@gluster.org Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 5:28:04 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost

[Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

2012-07-12 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Hi, are NFS mounts made on a single server (i.e. where glusterd is running) supposed to be stable (with gluster 3.2.6)? I'm using the following line in /etc/fstab: localhost:/sites /var/ftp/sites nfs _netdev,mountproto=tcp,nfsvers=3,bg 0 0 The problem is, after some time (~1-6 hours),