[Gluster-users] Using glusterfs with an export directory on an non-POSIX attr enabled FS

[Sandu Mihai]

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Dear all,

I am trying to setup a replicated volume to serve (in a load-balanced
setup) static content. Since we are talking about small sized files
(thumbnails) that do not take too much space, one ideea is to set that
up in RAM (using /dev/shm mountpoint on CentOS).

The main problem is that if I define a replicated volume using
glusterfs, and I have the export directory for each brick on /dev/shm
(eg. gluster volume create thumbs replica 2
192.168.111.1:/dev/shm/thumbs 192.168.111.2:/dev/shm/thumbs) and start
the volume, the volume is up according to gluster volume info, but I
can't access it from a native client.

If I try to do that, I get Transport Endpoint is not connected on client
and on bricks I get:

Aug 23 09:28:55 www-widget01 GlusterFS[24633]: [2011-08-23
09:28:55.210740] C [posix.c:4622:init] 0-thumbs-posix: Extended
attribute not supported, exiting.

It is paramount that the underlying FS supports xattr? If not, is there
a way to inhibit this dependency and use a volume created on /dev/shm?

Do I have any other options that would work with an export directory
located on a RAM based FS and not a disk one?

Best regards,

Sandu Mihai
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