[Users] Issues using local storage for gluster shared volume

[Vijay Bellur]

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