[Users] oVirt 3.1 and Glusterfs using NFS shares.

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/24/2012 06:42 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> On 06/23/2012 10:29 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
>> On 06/23/2012 09:08 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>> On 06/24/2012 03:50 AM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
>>>> It took me a while with lots of trail and error but I am pretty
>>>> close to
>>>> getting everything working but my latest error seems to be permission
>>>> related. Very much like the error one gets with regular nfs and the
>>>> share not owned by the correct uid/gid. But there doesn't seem to be a
>>>> way to fix it. According to this doc
>>>> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Translators/features/filter
>>>>
>>>> on the Gluster site you can set those but I don't see a way to set that
>>>> inside the interface and the files I would need to change get over
>>>> written but vdsm. Am I missing something really obvious? Has anyone
>>>> actually been able to get ovirt and glusterfs running together. I feel
>>>> like I am so close just missing one little piece of the puzzle.
>>>
>>> which files are getting written over by vdsm / when?
>> /var/lib/glusterd/nfs/nfs-server.vol
>>
>> If you make any change insides the volume tab.
>>
>>> the effort so far was on allowing to provision the gluster volumes.
>>> assumption was posix fs domains should allow to consume them until
>>> native gluster support in qemu will arrive later.
>>> sounds like there is at least one more hurdle around the permissions.
>> I have tired using it as both glusterfs and nfs and in both cases I am
>> seeing the same thing. Once you install Gluster 3.3 and fix iptables
>> join the boxes together volumes creation pretty much works but when I
>> attempt to mount them they mount as user root and user kvm has no
>> access to the share.
> After getting some sleep. I mounted the volume outside of oVirt. Then
> chown it to user 36.36. Then umounted. After doing that I was able to
> mount the nfs share inside oVirt. I was then able to bring the Data
> Storage and the Data Center on-line. I am uploading ISO right now to
> test creating VM's

great.
I think there are several on the list waiting for your 'how to setup 
gluster with ovirt'.
and then we need to see which steps we can improve/remove by supporting 
them out of the box.

>>>
>>> Vijay/Shireesh/Bala - any thoughts on how to set the ownership and
>>> permissions so vdsm can use the volume as a storage domain?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Itamar
>>
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> Thanks
> Robert
>