[Users] NFS Advanced Parameters Greyed out on Existing Storage Domains

[Chris Noffsinger]

Thank you for the speedy clarification.

So as I understand this BZ for the errata, the nfs_mount_options were being
ignored in vdsm.conf and then after the errata, they are no longer ignored?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826921


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Greg Padgett <gpadgett at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 02/13/2013 12:33 AM, Chris Noffsinger wrote:
>
>> So I have read this BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/**
>> show_bug.cgi?id=855729<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855729>
>>
>> and these related ovirt BZs http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/**8110/<http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/8110/>
>> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/**8797/ <http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/8797/>
>> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/**8798/ <http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/8798/>
>>
>> So forgive me but I am a little confused.  I have some existing NFS
>> Storage domains that I was not paying attention and attached without doing
>> any advanced parameters in RHEV 3.1
>>
>> Now the NFS Advanced Parameters box is greyed out.
>>
>> So now that I have attached these domains I cannot change the advanced nfs
>> option such as change it to Nfs4 from 3 or rsize and wsize?
>>
>> Maybe if I was using upstream oVirt instead of Rhev 3.1 I would be able to
>> make the changes in vdsm.conf and they would be honored?
>>
>
> It's the same in oVirt 3.1 and RHEV 3.1, see this bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/**show_bug.cgi?id=835543<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835543>
>
> As long as VDSM is current, you should be able to change the the
> nfs_mount_options in vdsm.conf to get what you want.  You would need to use
> this route instead of/in addition to the advanced options anyway, because
> they only allow modification of nfs version, retrans, and timeout and not
> rsize/wsize.
>
> (2 other options are a) modify the db directly (storage_server_connections
> table) for the available advanced options (not rsize/wsize), or b) attach
> the sd as posix and specify the mount options, but IMO the vdsm.conf method
> above is easier and cleaner.)
>
> Hope that helps,
> Greg
>
>
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>> Chris Noffsinger
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