[Gluster-devel] libgfapi with custom volfiles

[Bharata B Rao]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Avati,
>
> I am trying to boot QEMU with GlusterFS backend in RPC bypass mode. I
> am using a custom volume file that just has storage/posix xlator.
> Currently there is no way in gluster CLI to generate such custom
> volfiles and hence I added such a custom volfile into the directory
> where glusterd looks for volfiles and used volname.custom extension to
> fetch the right volfile.
>
> I see that QEMU waits forever waiting for glfs_init_wait() on
> pthread_cond_wait. I will spend time debugging this, but just bringing
> this up to check if you can spot any obvious problem quickly.

Hmm reported this a bit too soon :(

I had an extra unwanted section in my custom volfile that caused this
problem. QEMU with RPC bypass boots fine with libgfapi.

Regards,
Bharata.