[Gluster-users] XenServer and Glusterfs 3.1

[Shehjar Tikoo]

"Vikas Gorur" <vikas at gluster.com> wrote:

>
>On Dec 8, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Michael Patterson wrote:
>
>> Hi Shehjar,
>> 
>> I'm currently running gluster 3.1.1 on Centos 5.5 x64 and I am unable
>to
>> mount NFS subdirectories from xenserver. Was support for this feature
>added
>> in gluster 3.1.1? I've also tried using various options defined here,
>with
>> no luck:
>>
>http://gluster.org/faq/index.php?sid=2118&lang=en&action=artikel&cat=5&id=55&artlang=en
>> 
>> Like Stefano, I'm using the 'option nfs.port 2049*'*' in my
>> /etc/glusterd/nfs/nfs-server.vol configuration. Xenserver can create
>the SR,
>> but it cannot mount the subdirectory (see below).
>> 
>> ---------------------
>> # glusterd -V
>> glusterfs 3.1.1 built on Nov 29 2010 10:07:44
>> 
>> 
>> Mounting SR subdirectory from xenserver fails:
>> ---------------------------
>> # mount  10.0.0.1:/vol0/2e8a14e9-83d6-6e68-7c1a-464e6691988b /mnt
>> mount: 10.0.0.1:/vol0/2e8a14e9-83d6-6e68-7c1a-464e6691988b failed,
>reason
>> given by server: No such file or directory
>> ---------------------------
>
>Are you sure you don't have the Linux kernel NFS server running on
>10.0.0.1? Make sure you disable it before starting the Gluster volume.
>
>You can verify that the Gluster NFS server is running by running this
>on 10.0.0.1:
>
># showmount -e localhost
>
>The output should show:
>
>/vol0/2e8a14e9-83d6-6e68-7c1a-464e6691988b  *
>
>------------------------------
>Vikas Gorur
>Engineer - Gluster, Inc.
>------------------------------

Yes. Support for xen server subdirectory mounting is not present yet. It is still a work in progress.