[Gluster-devel] RPM / BerkeleyDB on GlusterFS

[Gordan Bobic]

Brent A Nelson wrote:
> I believe you're looking for shared writable mmap support, which 
> requires a very recent (maybe) or painfully-patched FUSE; it's not 
> really up to GlusterFS (I think it will probably just work, if your FUSE 
> is somehow able to support it).

I was actually more thinking about an option to rpm/bdb to make it no 
use mmap.

> So, if you can't get shared writable mmap to work, try the workaround 
> with tmpfs or another filesystem (perhaps even an NFS mount of a 
> GlusterFS directory).

Would that actually work? Exporting /var/lib/rpm via NFS and mounting it 
to fake some kind of mmap support? It's an inspired solution, I'll grant 
you that. I'll have to try it. :-)

Gordan