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

[Robert Middleswarth]

On 06/29/2012 05:09 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> 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
>
For the record.  This instructions worked also.  Will make a note about 
this as well.

Thanks
Robert
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