[Gluster-devel] Adding ALUA support for Gluster-Block

Niels de Vos ndevos at redhat.com
Fri Oct 26 12:52:34 UTC 2018


On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 05:54:28PM +0530, Susant Palai wrote:
> Hi,
>    For ALUA in Gluster-Block, we need fencing support from GlusterFS. This
> is targeted mainly to avoid corruption issues during fail-over from
> INITIATOR.
> 
> You can find the problem statement, design document at [1] and the GitHub
> discussions at [2].
> 
> Requesting your feedback on the same.

>From a quick glance, this looks very much like leases/delegations that
have been added for Samba and NFS-Ganesha. Can you explain why using
that is not sufficient?

Thanks,
Niels


> 
> Thanks,
> Susant/Amar/Shyam/Prasanna/Xiubo
> 
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1up5egL9SxmVKFpZMUEuuYML6xS2mNmBGzyZbMaw1fl0/edit?usp=sharing
> [2]
> https://github.com/gluster/gluster-block/issues/53#issuecomment-432924044

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