[Users] Rhel 6.5 Released = libgfapi?

[Itamar Heim]

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.