Only when all the volumes are stopped. The nfs process will be stopped.
testing with 3.1.0qa14 + 4 dht setup,removing a brick using "gluster volume remove-brick" removes the brick(brick4) as expected. but nfs is still running there. server4#ps ax|grep glust 27072 ? Ssl 0:00 glusterd 27628 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/glusterfs -f /etc/glusterd/nfs/nfs-server.vol -p /etc/glusterd/nfs/run/nfs.pid 27634 pts/0 R+ 0:00 grep glust server4#showmount -e Export list for domU-12-31-39-10-6D-E2: /dht4 * server1#gluster volume info Volume Name: dht4 Type: None Status: Started Number of Bricks: 3 Bricks: Brick1: 10.192.134.144:/mnt/d1 Brick2: 10.214.231.112:/mnt/d1 Brick3: 10.192.141.187:/mnt/d1