[Gluster-devel] Stateless Gluster 3.x series
Ian Latter
ian.latter at midnightcode.org
Fri Apr 13 13:04:59 UTC 2012
----- Original Message -----
>From: "Vijay Bellur" <vijay at gluster.com>
>To: "Ian Latter" <ian.latter at midnightcode.org>
>Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Stateless Gluster 3.x series
>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:27:38 +0530
>
> On 04/13/2012 02:26 PM, Ian Latter wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > Until yesterday all of my experiments with Gluster have
> > been with a vi'd vol file and the Glusterfsd process.
> > Michael and I have now done testing with glusterd under
> > Gluster version 3.2.6 and this has raised some issues.
> > The one I'd like to query in this thread is stateless
> > environments.
> >
> > If I have a PXE distribution that boots, tftp's a config
> > file, mounts storage devices and then initialises gluster
> > then;
> >
> > Previously - I wrote out the appropriate vol file and
> > started the necessary daemons.
> >
> > Now - I start the necessary daemon and issue a set
> > of commands to build the appropriate configuration.
> >
> > .. however, this results in a new gluster UUID each
> > time the node restarts.
> >
> > So;
> >
> > 1) Is there a gluster command to configure gluster
> > with a specific UUID?
> >
> > -or-
> >
> > 2) Is there a means to provide gluster with UUID
> > data outside of the gluster commands
> >
> >
>
> You could populate glusterd.info in the working directory
(/etc/glusterd
> or /var/lib/glusterd) with the desired UUID and start
glusterd. glusterd
> uses this UUID as part of its initialization process. If
the file (or
> UUID) is not available, then it re-generates a new UUID.
>
> --Vijay
>
Thanks Vijay,
I thought we'd try this, but I will re-test in case we
missed it.
Cheers,
--
Ian Latter
Late night coder ..
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