[Users] Native GlusterFs Storage domain and prereqs

[Mike Burns]

On 09/16/2013 11:30 AM, Joop wrote:
> Sven Knohsalla <s.knohsalla at netbiscuits.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm very interested in using libgfapi to get rid of the FUSE
>> overhead, as read here:
>> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/GlusterFS_Storage_Domain
>>
>> The pre-reqs for HVs are:
>>
>> -          libvirt version 1.0.1
>>
>> -          qemu version 1.3
>>
>> Currently I just can find these packages for fc19, I'm running
>> FC18 based nodes with older packages (productive, not testing). So,
>> am I right in this position I need to migrate to fc19 based hosts
>> for this functionality?
> No, you can add the virt-preview repo which should get you the f18
> packages. Sorry don't have the URL handy right now. If you can't find
> let know and I'll post it.

Yes, virt-preview would work with f18, but that feature is only 
available in the 3.3 release (coming very soon).  3.3 will run on Fedora 
19 hosts.

>
>
>>
>> I'm running an oVirt Engine with version 3.2.1-1.fc18, here I
>> don't have the option to choose GlusterFS_Domain, just POSIXFS.
>> Which version do I need here ?
>>
> 3.2 doesn't know about libgfapi, you'll need to do the lowlevel
> gluster stuff yourself, I think.

Right, for 3.2, you need to use POSIXFS for gluster.  native gluster 
domains are added in 3.3.

Mike

>
> Regards,
>
> Joop
>