[Gluster-users] GlusterFS as virtual machine storage

[Pavel Szalbot]

Gandalf, SIGKILL (killall -9 glusterfsd) did not stop I/O after few
minutes. SIGTERM on the other hand causes crash, but this time it is
not read-only remount, but around 10 IOPS tops and 2 IOPS on average.
-ps


On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Diego Remolina <dijuremo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I currently only have a Windows 2012 R2 server VM in testing on top of
> the gluster storage, so I will have to take some time to provision a
> couple Linux VMs with both ext4 and XFS to see what happens on those.
>
> The Windows server VM is OK with killall glusterfsd, but when the 42
> second timeout goes into effect, it gets paused and I have to go into
> RHEVM to un-pause it.
>
> Diego
>
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 7:53 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta
> <gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2017-09-08 13:44 GMT+02:00 Pavel Szalbot <pavel.szalbot at gmail.com>:
>>> I did not test SIGKILL because I suppose if graceful exit is bad, SIGKILL
>>> will be as well. This assumption might be wrong. So I will test it. It would
>>> be interesting to see client to work in case of crash (SIGKILL) and not in
>>> case of graceful exit of glusterfsd.
>>
>> Exactly. if this happen, probably there is a bug in gluster's signal management.