[Users] Rhel 6.5 Released = libgfapi?

[Andrew Lau]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 12/03/2013 10:58 AM, Andrew Lau wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
>> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On 12/03/2013 05:40 AM, Andrew Lau wrote:
>>
>>         Hi all,
>>
>>         I noticed rhel 6.5 was released and now most centos mirrors have
>>         been
>>         updated:
>>         http://lists.centos.org/__pipermail/centos-announce/__
>> 2013-December/020032.html
>>
>>         <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/
>> 2013-December/020032.html>
>>
>>         It appears to have a new version of
>>         qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6.__x86_64.rpm
>>
>>
>>         Is it now possible to switch from POSIX to native glusterfs? If
>>         so, how
>>         would one do that, I assume it requires some sort of database
>> hack.
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         Andrew
>>
>>
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>>
>>     its a code change in vdsm, not an engine config.
>>     there is still a gap around libvirt support for snapshots with
>>     libgfapi which is why this isn't enabled yet.
>>
>>
>> Oh, I was thinking along the lines of "Datacenter Type: Gluster" but I
>> haven't been able to progress further with the limited hardware as the
>> engine won't allow the modification.
>>
>
> no simple way to change these, true.
>
>
>
>> I'm not so much interested in snapshots, I'm just keen to test out the
>> better disk speeds
>>
>
> engine expect snapshots to work, so libgfapi was disabled when this issue
> was found, pending the libvirt fix.
>

Thanks for the update.

I'll keep an eye out for the patch
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