[Gluster-users] GlusterFS as virtual machine storage

lemonnierk at ulrar.net lemonnierk at ulrar.net
Sat Sep 9 22:08:39 UTC 2017


Mh, not so sure really, using libgfapi and it's been working perfectly
fine. And trust me, there had been A LOT of various crashes, reboots and
kill of nodes.

Maybe it's a version thing ? A new bug in the new gluster releases that
doesn't affect our 3.7.15.

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 10:19:24AM -0700, WK wrote:
> Well, that makes me feel better.
> 
> I've seen all these stories here and on Ovirt recently about VMs going 
> read-only, even on fairly simply layouts.
> 
> Each time, I've responded that we just don't see those issues.
> 
> I guess the fact that we were lazy about switching to gfapi turns out to 
> be a potential explanation <grin>
> 
> -wk
> 
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> On 9/9/2017 6:49 AM, Pavel Szalbot wrote:
> > Yes, this is my observation so far.
> >
> > On Sep 9, 2017 13:32, "Gionatan Danti" <g.danti at assyoma.it 
> > <mailto:g.danti at assyoma.it>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     So, to recap:
> >     - with gfapi, your VMs crashes/mount read-only with a single node
> >     failure;
> >     - with gpapi also, fio seems to have no problems;
> >     - with native FUSE client, both VMs and fio have no problems at all.
> >
> 

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