[ovirt-users] Persisting glusterfs configs on an oVirt node

Simon Barrett Simon.Barrett at tradingscreen.com
Wed May 28 10:22:17 EDT 2014


I just wasn't sure if I was missing something in the configuration to enable this.

I'll stick with the workarounds I have for now and see how it goes. 

Thanks again.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Fabian Deutsch [mailto:fdeutsch at redhat.com] 
Sent: 28 May 2014 15:20
To: Simon Barrett
Cc: Ryan Barry; Doron Fediuck; users at ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Persisting glusterfs configs on an oVirt node

Am Mittwoch, den 28.05.2014, 14:14 +0000 schrieb Simon Barrett:
> I did a "persist /var/lib/glusterd" and things are looking better. The gluster config is now still in place after a reboot.
> 
> As a workaround to getting glusterd running on boot, I added "service glusterd start" to /etc/rc.local and ran persist /etc/rc.local. It appears to be working but feels like a bit of a hack.
> 
> Does anyone have any other suggestions as to the correct way to do this?

Hey Simon,

I was also investigating both the steps you did. And was also about to recommend them :) They are more a workaround.

We basically need some patches to change the defaults on Node, to let gluster work out of the box.

This would include persisting the correct paths and enabling glusterd if enabled.

- fabian

> Thanks,
> 
> Simon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] On 
> Behalf Of Simon Barrett
> Sent: 28 May 2014 14:12
> To: Ryan Barry; Fabian Deutsch; Doron Fediuck
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Persisting glusterfs configs on an oVirt 
> node
> 
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> I cannot get glusterd to start on boot and I lose all gluster config every reboot. 
> 
> The following shows what I did on the node to start glusterd, create a volume etc, followed by the state of the node after a reboot. 
> 
> 
> [root at ovirt_node]# service glusterd status glusterd is stopped
> 
> [root at ovirt_node]# chkconfig --list glusterd
> glusterd        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> 
> [root at ovirt_node]# service glusterd start Starting glusterd:[  OK  ]
> 
> gluster> volume create vmstore 10.22.8.46:/data/glusterfs/vmstore
> volume create: vmstore: success: please start the volume to access 
> data
> 
> gluster> vol start vmstore
> volume start: vmstore: success
> 
> gluster> vol info
> Volume Name: vmstore
> Type: Distribute
> Volume ID: 5bd01043-1352-4014-88ca-e632e264d088
> Status: Started
> Number of Bricks: 1
> Transport-type: tcp
> Bricks:
> Brick1: 10.22.8.46:/data/glusterfs/vmstore
> 
> [root at ovirt_node]# ls -1 /var/lib/glusterd/vols/vmstore/ bricks node_state.info trusted-vmstore-fuse.vol cksum  
> rbstate         
> vmstore.10.22.8.46.data-glusterfs-vmstore.vol
> info    
> run              
> vmstore-fuse.vol
> 
> [root at ovirt_node]# grep gluster /etc/rwtab.d/*
> /etc/rwtab.d/ovirt:files   /var/lib/glusterd
> 
> [root at ovirt_node]# chkconfig glusterd on [root at ovirt_node]# chkconfig --list glusterd
> glusterd        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> 
> 
> ####################################
>  I then reboot the node and see the following:
> ####################################
> 
> [root at ovirt_node]# service glusterd status glusterd is stopped
> 
> [root at ovirt_node]# chkconfig --list glusterd
> glusterd        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
> 
> [root at ovirt_node]# ls -l /var/lib/glusterd/vols/ total 0
> 
> No more gluster volume configuration files.
> 
> I've taken a look through http://www.ovirt.org/Node_Troubleshooting#Making_changes_last_.2F_Persisting_changes but I'm unsure what needs to be done to persist this configuration.
> 
> To get glusterd to start on boot, do I need to manually persist /etc/rc* files?
> 
> I see "files /var/lib/glusterd" mentioned in /etc/rwtab.d/ovirt. Is this a list of the files/dirs that should be persisted automatically? If so, is it recursive and should it include everything in /var/lib/glusterd/vols?
> 
> 
> TIA for any help with this.
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Barry [mailto:rbarry at redhat.com]
> Sent: 27 May 2014 14:01
> To: Fabian Deutsch; Doron Fediuck; Simon Barrett
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Persisting glusterfs configs on an oVirt 
> node
> 
> On 05/26/2014 04:14 AM, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 25.05.2014, 08:18 -0400 schrieb Doron Fediuck:
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Simon Barrett" <Simon.Barrett at tradingscreen.com>
> >>> To: users at ovirt.org
> >>> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 11:29:39 AM
> >>> Subject: [ovirt-users] Persisting glusterfs configs on an oVirt 
> >>> node
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I am working through the setup of oVirt node for a 3.4.1 deployment.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I setup some glusterfs volumes/bricks on oVirt Node Hypervisor 
> >>> release 3.0.4
> >>> (1.0.201401291204.el6) and created a storage domain. All was 
> >>> working OK until I rebooted the node and found that the glusterfs 
> >>> configuration had not been retained.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Is there something I should be doing to persist any glusterfs 
> >>> configuration so it survives a node reboot?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Many thanks,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Simon
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Simon,
> >> it actually sounds like a bug to me, as node are supposed to 
> >> support gluster.
> >>
> >> Ryan / Fabian- thoughts?
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > I vaguely remember that we were seeing a bug like this some time ago.
> > We fixed /var/lib/glusterd to be writable (using tmpfs), but it can 
> > actually be that we need to persist those contents.
> >
> > But Simon, can you give details which configuration files are 
> > missing and why glusterd is not starting?
> Is glusterd starting? I'm getting the impression that it's starting, but that it has no configuration. As far as I know, Gluster keeps most of the configuration on the brick itself, but it finds brick information in /var/lib/glusterd.
> 
> The last patch simply opened the firewall, and it's entirely possible that we need to persist this. It may be a good idea to just persist the entire directory from the get-go, unless we want to try to have a thread watching /var/lib/glusterd for relevant files, but then we're stuck trying to keep up with what's happening with gluster itself...
> 
> Can we
> >
> > Thanks
> > fabian
> >
> >> Either way I suggest you take a look in the below link- 
> >> http://www.ovirt.org/Node_Troubleshooting#Making_changes_last_.2F_P
> >> er
> >> sisting_changes
> >>
> >> Let s know how it works.
> >>
> >> Doron
> >
> >
> 
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