[Users] Gluster network info

[Sahina Bose]

On 10/04/2013 03:40 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Sahina Bose wrote:
>
>> There's no user interface way to trigger replication.
>> Gianluca, I assume you do not mean geo-replication but replication of files
>> when volume is of replicated type.
> YesSahina, I mean replication of files when volume is of replicated type
> (in my case distributed replicated)
>
>
>> Currently, we do not have a way to specify the network to be used when
>> gluster communicates with peers.
>> Like Joop mentioned in a separate mail, if you use FQDN to add host to the
>> engine, and  FQDN resolves differently for internal and external
>> communication, gluster would then use the internal network for its
>> communication
> OK, eventuallt I'm going to try this way.
> Do you think it would work if without dns at all for a test
> environment I set up this way
>
> mgmt lan 192.x
> gluster network 10.x
>
> server hostnames involved
> engine
> node01
> node02
>
> In /etc/hosts of engine
>
> 192.xxx engine
> 192.yyy node01
> 192.zzz node02
>
> In /etc/hosts of nodes
> 192.xxx engine
> 10.yyy node01
> 10.zzz node02
>
> and accordingly in sysconfig files of nodes for their hostnames/ip bindng
>
> And when I preconfigure gluster on nodes I use on node01 the command
> gluster peer probe node02

I believe it should. When you add host to engine you would use node01.
Please let us know how it goes,

thanks again
sahina
>
> Gianluca