[Users] Gluster storage

Dan Kenigsberg danken at redhat.com
Fri Nov 29 10:48:58 UTC 2013


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 04:04:03PM +0530, Vijay Bellur wrote:

> 
> There are two ways in which GlusterFS can be used as a storage domain:
> 
> a) Use gluster native/fuse access with POSIXFS
> 
> b) Use the gluster native storage domain to bypass fuse (with
> libgfapi). We are currently addressing an issue in libvirt
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1017289) to enable
> snapshot support with libgfapi. Once this is addressed, we will have
> libgfapi support in the native storage domain.

It won't be as immediate, since there's a required fix on Vdsm's side
(Bug 1022961 - Running a VM from a gluster domain uses mount instead of
gluster URI)

> Till then, fuse would
> be used with native storage domain. You can find more details about
> native storage domain here:
> 
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/GlusterFS_Storage_Domain



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