[Users] How to configure sharedFS ?

[Yair Zaslavsky]

On 06/17/2012 03:50 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 03:07 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 07:04:47PM +0530, Deepak C Shetty wrote:
>>> On 02/29/2012 08:06 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
>>>> Let us know if you need further assistance..
>>>> If you have that python script working for LOCALFS, I'd suggest you try
>>>> making it work for SHAREDFS too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I was able to use the VDSM_Standalone example, and modify it to use
>>> SHAREDFS
>>> and export glusterfs as a DATA_DOMAIN and invoke VM backed by
>>> gluster storage.
>>>
>>> I edited http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Vdsm_Standalone (scroll below)&
>>> added it as
>>> a SHAREDFS example.
>> Thanks! It is great news that all you need is O_DIRECT in fuse, and that
>> Vdsm's SHAREDFS interface works as it is for gluster.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dan.
>>
> 
> Hello,
>     Got more questions on this, now that I am re-visiting this.
> The last time i tried using SHAREDFS, i started from createStorageDomain
> verb, and it works fine.
> 
> But now we have connectStorageServer verb... which i believe is the new
> way of doing things ?
> If i start from connectStorageServer verb to mount using SHAREDFS (
> which goes via PosixFs... MountConnection flow), that won't help me
> entirely here, right ?
> Because it only mounts based on the dict sent, but does not do anything
> with the image and metadata stuff ( which createStorageDomain flow did ).
> 
> I am wondering if its too early to start using connectStorageServer ? If
> not, how can i re-write the above vdsm standalone example using
> connectStorageServer instead of createStorageDomain flow ?

Will a solution via engine (i.e - create PosixFS storage domain) be good
for you?


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