Gluster users - Mar 2011 - Why does glusterfs has nfs stuff on the server

When I installed gluster and do a "ps" on the process I see:

/usr/sbin/glusterfs -f /etc/glusterd/nfs/nfs-server.vol -p
/etc/glusterd/nfs/run/nfs.pid -l /var/log/glusterfs/nfs.log"

My question is why did glusterfs use nfs-server.vol, nfs.pid and
nfs.log instead of using some generic name. This is confusing and
makes me think it's using nfs somehow on the server even though that
doesn't look like it.

We use direct attached storage, not NFS. This seems to come with
default installation of gluster. Is this just a mistake in how scripts
were named or is there more to it?

Mohit,

GlusterFS supports native NFS server protocol, hence you can use the clients
to connect to a glusterfs server using NFS mount too,

If you are mounting using below command.

bash# mount -t glusterfs somehost:/volume /mount/point

you can also mount it in nfs like below:

bash# mount -t nfs somehost:/volume /mount/point

Thats the reason why you are seeing the nfs with glusterfs.. and we think
the name is appropriate because that particular process of glusterfs is
serving NFS protocol.

Regards,
Amar

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia at
gmail.com>wrote:
> When I installed gluster and do a "ps" on the process I see:
>
> /usr/sbin/glusterfs -f /etc/glusterd/nfs/nfs-server.vol -p
> /etc/glusterd/nfs/run/nfs.pid -l /var/log/glusterfs/nfs.log"
>
> My question is why did glusterfs use nfs-server.vol, nfs.pid and
> nfs.log instead of using some generic name. This is confusing and
> makes me think it's using nfs somehow on the server even though that
> doesn't look like it.
>
> We use direct attached storage, not NFS. This seems to come with
> default installation of gluster. Is this just a mistake in how scripts
> were named or is there more to it?
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All Gluster volumes are exported through nfs by default. To disable nfs on 
3.1.3 release, use the nfs.disable command line option. For more info on 
this, please see the release notes.

Mohit Anchlia wrote:
> When I installed gluster and do a "ps" on the process I see:
> 
> /usr/sbin/glusterfs -f /etc/glusterd/nfs/nfs-server.vol -p
> /etc/glusterd/nfs/run/nfs.pid -l /var/log/glusterfs/nfs.log"
> 
> My question is why did glusterfs use nfs-server.vol, nfs.pid and
> nfs.log instead of using some generic name. This is confusing and
> makes me think it's using nfs somehow on the server even though that
> doesn't look like it.
> 
> We use direct attached storage, not NFS. This seems to come with
> default installation of gluster. Is this just a mistake in how scripts
> were named or is there more to it?
> _______________________________________________
> Gluster-users mailing list
> Gluster-users at gluster.org
> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users