<html><body><div style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hi John,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think on gluster 3.3 and 3.4, nfs is enabled by default.<br></div><div><br></div><div>nfs is actually a translator, so it's in the 'stack' already - this is why you don't need the nfs-kernel-server package.<br></div><div><br></div><div>When mounting from a client, you just need to ensure the mount options are right<br></div><div>i.e. use the following -o proto=tcp,vers=3 (for linux)<br></div><div><br></div><div>The other consideration is that by default the volume will expose 64bit inodes - if you have a 32bit apps, or OS you'll need to tweak the gluster volume with "vol set <vol> nfs.enable-ino32 on"<br></div><div><br></div><div>I haven't got a 3.3 system handy, but on a 3.4 system if you run the following<br></div><div>gluster vol set help | grep "^Option: nfs."</div><div><br></div><div>you'll get a view of all the nfs tweaks that can be made with the translator.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Paul C<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"John G. Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu><br><b>To: </b>"gluster-users" <gluster-users@gluster.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, 7 February, 2014 9:52:44 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Gluster-users] nfs<br><div><br></div><br>Maybe this is a dumb question but do I have to set up an nfs server on <br>one of the server peers in my gluster volume in order to connect to the <br>volume with nfs? I did a port scan on a couple of the peers in my <br>cluster and port 2049 was cloased. I'm thinking maybe you have to <br>configure an nfs server on one of the peers and it can read/write to the <br>gluster volume like it would any disk. But then what do these commands do:<br><div><br></div><br> gluster volume set <VOLNAME> nfs.disable off<br> gluster volume set <VOLNAME> nfs.disable on<br><div><br></div>The documentation on the gluster.org web site seems to imply that yu <br>don't need an nfs server. It specifically says you need the nfs-common <br>package on your servers. That would imply you don't need the <br>nfs-kernel-server package, right? See:<br>http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Using_NFS_to_Mount_Volumes<br>_______________________________________________<br>Gluster-users mailing list<br>Gluster-users@gluster.org<br>http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></body></html>