[Gluster-users] Gluster and SL storage

[Jiffin Tony Thottan]

On 11/03/16 17:50, Venkatesh Gopal wrote:
> I have a Softlayer Endurance storage volume and have mounted it using 
> NFS..
>
>
>  mount -t nfs4 -o hard,intr 
> hostname.service.softlayer.com:/IBM01SEV330022_1 /mnt/slvol
>
> [root at mycentostester1 ~]# gluster volume create test-volume transport 
> tcp mycentostester1:/mnt/slvol/gvol
>
> volume create: test-volume: failed: Glusterfs is not supported on 
> brick: mycentostester1:/mnt/slvol/gvol.
> Setting extended attributes failed, reason: Operation not supported.
>
> [root at mycentostester1 ~]# gluster volume create test-volume  
> mycentostester1:/mnt/slvol/gvol
>
> volume create: test-volume: failed: Glusterfs is not supported on 
> brick: mycentostester1:/mnt/slvol/gvol.
> Setting extended attributes failed, reason: Operation not supported.
>
>
>
> So, can we not create a gluster volume on a NFS mount point directory?
>
Hi Venkatesh,

One of the requirements for glusterfs volume is that backend need tot 
support extended attributes.
The nfs shares does not support xttars.
Is there any specfic reason to use nfs share as brick(glusterfs server)?

--
Jiffin

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