[Kimchi-devel] Gluster Mounts with LibGFAPI

Aline Manera alinefm at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jun 20 13:18:02 UTC 2017



On 06/12/2017 09:37 PM, WK wrote:
> OK, great.
>
> If you need some testing done, let me know.
>
> GlusterFS is really convenient and reliable in the small/medium HA 
> cluster space that Kimchi works well with.
>

Thanks! I keep you posted about any updated related to that. :-)

> -bill
>
> On 6/9/2017 8:33 AM, Aline Manera wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> There are a feature request open on github to make Kimchi support 
>> GlusterFS pool.
>> It is not in the next releases plans but of course, patches are more 
>> than welcome.
>>
>> If I am not mistaken the subjects, I think there is someone 
>> interested on doing that as well. I would need to check the github 
>> issues to confirm that.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aline Manera
>>
>> On 06/06/2017 03:11 PM, WK wrote:
>>> I am playing with GlusterFS on Kimchi (simple replication mount).
>>>
>>> Gluster has made a lot of improvements in the past year or so with 
>>> the introduction of 'sharding' which dramatically speeds up the 
>>> re-heal 'lock' time  when you lose a brick.
>>>
>>> For now I am using the native mount (FUSE) and telling kimchi about 
>>> it using the DIR type. that works fine and is I believe how oVirt 
>>> supports Gluster.
>>>
>>> Then I plan on using the libgfapi mount which is supported by 
>>> Libvirt directly.
>>>
>>> Has the Kimchi client ever looked into supporting either the fuse 
>>> mount or libgfapi mount from the panel rather than hand doing it 
>>> with virsh?
>>>
>>> -bill
>>>
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>>
>



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