[Gluster-users] Change transport type on volume from tcp to rdma

John Mark Walker johnmark at redhat.com
Thu Oct 11 13:41:02 UTC 2012


Cool - can you add this to http://community.gluster.org/ ?

-JM



----- Original Message -----
> What I did was:
> 
> gluster volume stop VOLUME
> gluster volume delete VOLUME
> 
> On each peer on each brick I did:
> setfattr -x trusted.glusterfs.volume-id /mnt/brick1
> setfattr -x trusted.gfid /mnt/brick1
> setfattr -x trusted.glusterfs.volume-id /mnt/brick2
> setfattr -x trusted.gfid /mnt/brick2
> rm -r /mnt/brick1/.glusterfs/
> rm -r /mnt/brick2/.glusterfs/
> 
> gluster volume create VOLUME replica 2 transport rdma,tcp
> peer1:brick1
> peer2:brick1 peer1:brick2 peer2:brick2
> 
> Now I was able to mount with -o transport=rdma where I have
> Infiniband
> cards and -o transport=tcp where I have only ethernet
> 
> Best Regards
> Ivan Dimitrov
> 
> On 10/10/12 4:59 PM, Ivan Dimitrov wrote:
> > So there is no manual way to change the transport right now?
> > I need the transport between peers to be rdma and the transport
> > between clients/peers to be tcp.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ivan Dimitrov
> >
> >
> > On 10/10/12 3:57 PM, Amar Tumballi wrote:
> >> On 10/10/2012 04:47 PM, Ivan Dimitrov wrote:
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> I have two peers setup and working with x2 bricks each. They have
> >>> been
> >>> working via tcp for the last 4-5 months.
> >>> I just got two Infiniband cards and put the on the peers. I want
> >>> to
> >>> change the transport type to rdma instead of tcp but I don't see
> >>> an
> >>> easy
> >>> way to do this.
> >>> Can you please help me with proper instructions.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Ivan,
> >>
> >> You are asking for a feature which just got merged upstream
> >> (http://review.gluster.org/4008). This will make it to 3.4.0
> >> release,
> >> till then the functionality you are asking will not be available.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Amar
> >>
> >
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