Re: [OSR-devel] GlusterFS OSR?

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

Hi Gordan,
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 11:52:18 go...@bo... wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone think that adding support for this would be a good idea? I'm
> working with GlusterFS at the moment, so could try to add the relevant
> init stuff when I've ironed things out a bit. Maybe as a contrib package,
> like DRBD?
After going roughly over the features and concepts of Glusterfs, I would doubt 
it being an easy task to build a open-sharedroot cluster with it but why not.

Still it sounds quite promising and if you like you are welcome to contribute. 
We'll support you as best as we can.
>
> On a separate node, am I correct in presuming that the diet version of the
> initrd with the kernel drivers pruned and additional package filtering
> added as per the patch I sent a while back was not deemed a good idea?
Thanks for reminding me. I forgot to answer, sorry.

The idea itself is good. But originally and by concept the initrd it designed 
to be an initrd used for different hardware configurations. That implies we 
need different kernel modules and tools on the same cluster. Say you would 
use a combination of virtulized and unvirtualized nodes in a cluster. As of 
now that is possible. Or just different servers. This would not be possible 
with your diet-patch, would it?

I thought of using it as special option to the mkinitrd (--diet or the like). 
Could you provide a patch for this?

Thanks and regards
Marc.
>
> Gordan
>
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