Re: [OSR-devel] GlusterFS Support

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

On Saturday 22 November 2008 16:51:31 Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Marc Grimme wrote:
> > But why not go this way:
> > There is a method/function "clusterfs_services_start" which itself calls
> > ${clutype}_services_start which should be implemented by
> > etc/${rootfs}-lib.sh. Your $rootfs should be glusterfs and therefore
> > there should be a library glusterfs-lib.sh. The function
> > clusterfs_services_start should do all the preparations to mount the
> > clusterfilesystem and could also mount a local filesystem as a
> > prerequisite. So I would put it there. A rootfs can be specified as
> > follows:
> > <rootvolume name="/dev/whicheverdeviceyoulike" fstype="glusterfs"/>
>
> OK, this solution wins on the grounds that remapping the chrootenv seems
> to confuse glusterfs.
>
> But ${clutype}_services_start is dependent on ${clutype}, which is
> returned from getCluType(), which always returns "gfs". Will that not
> break things?
Not any more take the latest version of clusterfs-lib.sh and it is dependent 
on rootfs. I changed it how it should recently.
>
>  From what you said, if I have the following entry:
> <rootvolume name="/etc/glusterfs/root.vol" fstype="flusterfs"/>
> $rootfs come from $fstype. Is that right? Or from
> <rootsource name="glusterfs">? Or somewhere else entirely?
It comes form the fstype attribute not from the name.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gordan
>
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