[Gluster-devel] LVM

[Onyx]

Krishna Srinivas wrote:
> Onyx,
>
> Just thinking about it, using snapshots as glusterfs storage volumes
> is not advisable unless you know what you are doing. If you roll back
> a volume, it will depend on how selfheal of unify/afr handle it. AFR
> would just update the rolled back volume with the other copy.
>   
Yes, that was what I was thinking. Newer will overwrite the older, witch 
is the rolled-back one in this case.

> Better use of LVM + glusterfs would be to grow the backend FS
> as an when needed.
>   
Yes I have been thinking of that too.
I was just  'brainstorming' on a solution to have snapshot features in 
glusterfs.

> I think use case of snapshots just in backend LVM in a glusterfs
> environment will not be much. However snapshots in a glusterfs
> as a whole filesystem will be useful.
>   
It surely would.
Now, what if I would setup a glusterfs volume with lvm on all it's 
subvolumes. It shouldn't be to hard to write something that, if I want 
to make a snapshot of the whole glusterfs filesystem, it sends my "take 
snapshot"-command to the all the lvm subvolumes and executes the actual 
lvm snapshot command over there. Or am I missing something here?



> Krishna
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Onyx <lists at bmail.be> wrote:
>   
>> Hmm, yes, what was I thinking....
>>
>> But if I want to use LVM snapshots underneath glusterfs volumes (on
>> different bricks) who are then unified or afr'd,  won't there be a problem
>> because the snapshots aren't taken at exactly the same time? Or what would
>> be the expected behavior if I for example roll back one volume in an afr
>> setup and not the other?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:
>>     
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>>> Hi Onyx,
>>> GlusterFS volumes are file based. LVM requires block based
>>> store. You cannot have LVM over GlusterFS. I am assuming
>>> you are asking about GlusterFS over LVM. You can use LVM and
>>> its snapshotting ability underneath the GlusterFS posix volume.
>>> It will work transparently.
>>>
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>>>
>>> Onyx wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Has anyone ever tested LVM on top of a glusterfs volume? Would this even
>>>> be possible?
>>>> I'm interested because of the snapshot feature of LVM.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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