Re: [Users] gluster via posix fs (was What are you looking for from oVirt?)

On 06/29/2012 04:57 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 06/29/2012 11:45 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote: >> On 06/29/2012 03:15 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: >>> On 06/29/2012 06:15 PM, Nathan Stratton wrote: >>>> I must admit the first part of managing GlusterFS with 3.3 works very >>>> well out of the box on oVirt 3.1. >>>> >>>> Turn on GlusterFS in the cluster >>>> Add your nodes >>>> Manually add the peers in Gluster >>>> Edit /etc/nfsmount.conf and set Defaultproto=tcp and Defaultvers=3 >>>> Create your gluster volume >>>> Start the volume >>>> Mount it in on one of your nodes in say /mnt >>>> chown 36.36 /mnt >>>> >>>> The only problem now is that you have to now use the volume as a NFS >>>> server. >>> >>> why not as posixfs? >> Because I helped him get it working and I was never able to get posixfs >> working but was able to get nfs working. > > i have these steps courtesy of haim ateya worth trying: > * add new volume constructed from one brick > - volume name = myVol > - brick dir = /opt/myBrick > * start volume > - ssh to node > * chown -R vdsm:kvm /opt/myBrick > - using ovirt do the following): > * create new DC (Posix compliant FS) > * create new cluster > * add new host (virt) > * new domain dialog > - path = node:/myVol > - VFS Type = glusterfs > - Mount Options = vers=3 > * if start vm failedt to selinux - disable SELINUX on host > > you would need the newer kernel with direct_io iirc The mount options is useful to know. I have moved over to centos 6.2 since F17 was freezing up on me every 10 to 12 hours. I am guessing I will need to wait for CentOS 6.3 to get direct IO support and hopefully live snapshots as well. I might test glusterfs as well. PS I use localhost:/volumename for NFS. Thanks Robert

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