[Gluster-users] libgfapi management functions

[RAGHAVENDRA TALUR]

I apologize for not replying earlier.

Such functionality is not planned for libgfapi.
We plan to keep it restricted to only data path.

Projects in https://forge.gluster.org/ may be helpful to you.



On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Prasad, Nirmal <nprasad at idirect.net> wrote:

>  Thanks for the response – the one functionality or hook I’m looking for
> is a notification for brick failure – presently the process involves
> checking the volume status to see if a certain brick goes offline.
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> When a brick fails, would want to start a timer and replace the brick if
> it does not come up automatically – alternatively if gluster allowed
> specifying “hot-stand-bys” to replace with at a certain timeout (eg. 1
> minute or a replica threshold)  it would work.
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> Thanks
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> Regards
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> Nirmal
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> *From:* RAGHAVENDRA TALUR [mailto:raghavendra.talur at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, September 01, 2014 3:26 PM
> *To:* Prasad, Nirmal
> *Cc:* gluster-users at gluster.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Gluster-users] libgfapi management functions
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> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Prasad, Nirmal <nprasad at idirect.net>
> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Is there any plan or interest in getting the management functions added to
> gfapi? – looks pretty much like the client library functions could be
> added.
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> eg. the present libgfapi has glfs_mgmt.c with a few rpc messages exchanged
> with glusterd
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> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/api/src/glfs-mgmt.c
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> Any interest or plans to have more operations exposed (especially brick
> status change notifications to be propagated to applications)?  I’m
> wondering if gluster cli could be built on this library – it would involve
> taking the functionality that exists in the cli into a library and
> separating out the console interactions.
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> Thanks
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> Regards
>
> Nirmal
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> Hi Nirmal,
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> The file glfs_mgmt.c has only those functions which are required by the
> client stack of glusterfs to interact with
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> glusterd. The management here refers to interaction of the process/library
> with the glusterfs management daemon which is glusterd for its own purpose.
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> GFAPI is currently intended to be used only as a interface/api to the file
> glusterfs filesystem and not for management operations.
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> Do you have a specific requirement which would require such a feature from
> GFAPI?
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> There are other projects being developed to provide API for management
> operations like
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> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/rest-api
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> --
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> *Raghavendra Talur *
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*Raghavendra Talur *
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