[Gluster-users] linux flash filesystems and GlusterFS

[Carlos Capriotti]

>From memory, support to ACLs, SElinux, but I could be wrong.


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Jay Vyas <jayunit100 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are there any other requirements other than xattr support?  Would be cool
> to find ever kernel fs impl and test them automatically on a server (maybe
> our rack space nodes) somewhere for a series of known gluster requirements.
>
> On Apr 2, 2014, at 6:49 AM, Apostolos Manolitzas <
> manap at intracom-telecom.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> as far as I can see, from the UBIFS Faq
> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html#L_xattr
>
> UBIFS supports extended attributes if the corresponding configuration
> option is enabled (no additional mount options are required). It supports
> the user, trusted, and security name-spaces. However, access control
> lists (ACL) support is not implemented.
>
> beyond that, no clue if it's working.
>
> -Apostolos
>
> On 04/02/2014 02:41 PM, Carlos Capriotti wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
>  i am not very familiar with those filesystems you mentioned, but as a
> rule of thumb, a FS for gluster has to support extended attributes, so,
> this is a good way to start: check if you can tdo that.
>
>  Also, when setting gluster with the recommended configuration, you are
> supposed to use XFS, and the inodes have to be defined with -i size=512.
>
>  If experimenting with other FS, make sure you can set the inode as well,
> just to be in the safe side.
>
>  EXT4 is not a good option right now, just in case you are wondering.
> Lots of discussion and documentation on those issues in past threads of the
> list.
>
>  Cheers.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Apostolos Manolitzas <
> manap at intracom-telecom.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hello all,
>>
>> I just discovered the GlusterFS while looking for a solution for high
>> availability on our NAND flashes. We use ubifs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_file_system#Linux_flash_filesystems>and
>> jffs2<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_file_system#Linux_flash_filesystems>for filesystem and we would like to apply some high availability strategy
>> to a part of the flash. So has anyone tested GlusterFS with this setup? Is
>> it a viable solution or should we move to an upper layer solution?
>>
>> thanks for any opinion,
>>
>> -Apostolos
>>
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