[Gluster-users] Gluster and SL storage

[Niels de Vos]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 06:30:06AM -0600, Venkatesh Gopal wrote:
> No, SL does not give other options to mount its storage. I will have to 
> check what options are feasible.

Maybe SoftLayer allows mounting over CIFS/SMB? Extended attributes is an
additional feature of the SMB protocol (if I remember correctly). It is
possible that extended attributes are supported through this? NFSv4.2
(or maybe NFSv4.3?) has optional support for extended attributes as
well, but this is not available in current Linux distributions for all I
know.

Could you explain what your use-case is for providing a Gluster volume
(a network filesystem) backed by an other network filesystem?

Thanks,
Niels


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> Venkatesh.
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> From:   Jiffin Tony Thottan <jthottan at redhat.com>
> To:     Venkatesh Gopal/Lenexa/IBM at IBMUS, gluster-users at gluster.org
> Date:   03/11/2016 06:28 AM
> Subject:        Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster and SL storage
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> On 11/03/16 17:50, Venkatesh Gopal wrote:
> I have a Softlayer Endurance storage volume and have mounted it using 
> NFS.. 
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> 
>  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.
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> 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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> Venkatesh.
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