[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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