[Gluster-users] ReiserFS problems

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 12:18:08 +0100
"nurdin david" <duchnoun at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> When i launch the server glusterFS on a reiserFS partition i got this error :
> 
> [2011-01-02 12:17:20.269951] C [posix.c:4313:init] posix: Extended attribute not supported, exiting.
> [2011-01-02 12:17:20.269973] E [xlator.c:909:xlator_init] posix: Initialization of volume 'posix' failed, review your volfile again
> 
> 
> 
> And strace is :
> 
> stat64("/data/export", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=48, ...}) = 0
> lsetxattr("/data/export", "trusted.glusterfs.test", "working", 8, 0) = -1 EDQUOT (Disk quota exceeded)
> gettimeofday({1293965111, 13398}, NULL) = 0
> 
> 
> I turn ON Xattr on the partition mount : 
> 
> /dev/mapper/pve-data on /var/lib/vz type reiserfs (rw,attrs,acl,user_xattr)
> 
> 
> Have u got an idea ? 
> Thanks

Yes. Don't use reiserfs. Even if you manage to get it working (which _is_ possible) you will find out that its performance regarding xattrs is pretty bad. Take this advice: use ext3 for this case.

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Regards,
Stephan