[Users] Issues using local storage for gluster shared volume

[Tony Feldmann]

Great, I put things on xfs this weekend and all seems to be running fine.
Thanks for the info.


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 03/29/2013 07:19 PM, Tony Feldmann wrote:
>
>> Aren't there concerns with xfs and large files in cases of failures?  I
>> was under the impression that if xfs was writing to a file and the
>> system died it would zero out the entire file.  Just hesitant to put
>> large vm files on a fs like that.  Is this still an issue with xfs?
>>
>
> There are no known problems with recent kernels. There are quite a few
> enterprise storage solutions that run on xfs.
>
> Thanks,
> Vijay
>
>
>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com
>> <mailto:vbellur at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 03/28/2013 08:19 PM, Tony Feldmann wrote:
>>
>>         I have been trying for a month or so to get a 2 node cluster up
>> and
>>         running.  I have engine installed on the first node, then add
>>         each each
>>         system as a host to a posix dc.  Both boxes have 4 data disks.
>>           After
>>         adding the hosts I create a distributed replicate volume using 3
>>         disk
>>         from each host with ext4 filesystems. I click the 'optimize for
>>         virt'
>>         option on the volume.  There is a message in events that says
>>         that it
>>         can't set a volume option, then it sets 2 volume options.
>>           Checking the
>>         options tab I see that it added the gid/uid options.  I was
>>         unable to
>>         find in the logs what option was not set, I just see a message
>> about
>>         usage for volume set <volname> <option>.  The volume starts fine
>>         and I
>>         am able to create a data domain on the volume.  Once the domain is
>>         created I try to create a vm and it fails creating the disk.
>>  Error
>>         messages are along the lines of task file exists and can't
>>         remove task
>>         files.  There are directories under tasks and when trying to
>>         manually
>>         remove them I get the "directory not empty" error.  Can someone
>>         please
>>         shed some light on what I am doing wrong to get this 2 node
>>         cluster with
>>         local disk as shared storage up and running?
>>
>>
>>     There are known problems with ext4 and gluster at the moment. Can
>>     you please confirm if you see similar behaviour with xfs and gluster?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Vijay
>>
>>
>>
>
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