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

Ivan Dimitrov dobber at amln.net
Thu Oct 11 13:54:53 UTC 2012


http://community.gluster.org/q/how-to-change-transport-type-on-active-volume---glusterfs-3-3/



On 10/11/12 4:41 PM, John Mark Walker wrote:
> 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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