[Gluster-users] how to run gluster as non-root user?

[Anand Avati]

storage/posix xlator absolutely needs to be run as root for it to be
able to create files as different owners in the backend.

Avati


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Wei Dong <wdong.pku at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in this too.  I think other than access control, there's no
> reason preventing gluster from running as a normal user.  I'm wondering if
> there's someway of disabling the access control part to bypass this error.
>
> - Wei
>
> G Feng wrote:
>>
>> [aimi at centos ~]$ /sbin/glusterfsd -f ~/vol/glusterfsd.vol --debug
>> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] D [glusterfsd.c:339:_get_specfp] glusterfs: loading
>> volume file /home/aimi/vol/glusterfsd.vol
>>
>> ================================================================================
>> Version      : glusterfs 2.0.2 built on Jul  7 2009 14:55:51
>> TLA Revision : 07019da2e16534d527215a91904298ede09bb798
>> Starting Time: 2009-09-16 16:42:24
>> Command line : /sbin/glusterfsd -f /home/aimi/vol/glusterfsd.vol --debug
>> PID          : 6240
>> System name  : Linux
>> Nodename     : centos.localdomain
>> Kernel Release : 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5
>> Hardware Identifier: i686
>>
>> Given volfile:
>>
>> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>  1: volume posix
>>  2:   type storage/posix
>>  3:   option directory /home/aimi/new
>>  4: end-volume
>>  5:
>>  6: volume locks
>>  7:   type features/locks
>>  8:   subvolumes posix
>>  9: end-volume
>>  10:
>>  11: volume brick
>>  12:   type performance/io-threads
>>  13:   option thread-count 8
>>  14:   subvolumes locks
>>  15: end-volume
>>  16:
>>  17: volume server
>>  18:   type protocol/server
>>  19:   option transport-type tcp
>>  20:   option auth.addr.brick.allow *
>>  21:   subvolumes brick
>>  22: end-volume
>>
>> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] D [xlator.c:634:xlator_set_type] xlator:
>> dlsym(notify)
>> on /usr/local/lib/glusterfs/2.0.2/xlator/features/locks.so: undefined
>> symbol: notify -- neglecting
>> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] D [xlator.c:634:xlator_set_type] xlator:
>> dlsym(notify)
>> on /usr/local/lib/glusterfs/2.0.2/xlator/performance/io-threads.so:
>> undefined symbol: notify -- neglecting
>> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] D [glusterfsd.c:1179:main] glusterfs: running in pid
>> 6240
>> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] C [posix.c:3864:init] posix: Extended attribute not
>> supported, exiting.
>> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] E [xlator.c:736:xlator_init_rec] xlator:
>> Initialization of volume 'posix' failed, review your volfile again
>> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] E [glusterfsd.c:498:_xlator_graph_init] glusterfs:
>> initializing translator failed
>> [2009-09-16 16:42:24] E [glusterfsd.c:1191:main] glusterfs: translator
>> initialization failed.  exiting
>>
>>
>> It could work with the same setting when I run it as root.
>>
>> how to run gluster as non-root user?
>>
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