[Gluster-devel] xattr support
Jeff Darcy
jdarcy at redhat.com
Fri May 6 15:16:44 UTC 2011
On 05/06/2011 10:53 AM, Hans K. Rosbach wrote:
>> GlusterFS does support xattrs - I've worked extensively with this
>> functionality myself - so it must be the config. Are you sure that
>> the server-side bricks which make up your GlusterFS filesystem are
>> on filesystems mounted with user_xattr?
>
> Thank you, that was indeed the fault.
You're welcome.
> I had thought that GlusterFS would not have worked at all without
> user_xattr on the server side, so it did not even occur to me to
> check the server side mount. A server log message about this would
> probably have been nice.
The xattrs used internally are all in the "trusted" namespace so they
don't require user_xattr.
http://cloudfs.org/2011/04/glusterfs-extended-attributes/ has some more
information about internal xattr usage; please let me know if there's
information you'd like that's missing.
> I am happy to say that I now have no remaining issues with our
> glusterfs setup whatsoever after 2 months of extensive testing. The
> problems that did show up were quickly corrected in 3.1.3 and 3.1.4.
> We are now looking at going to production with the system.
That's awesome. The more the merrier. :)
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