Replies Inline. On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Jordan Mendler <jmendler@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone please give me a run down of when extended attriubutes are > needed in the underlying filesystem accessed by gluster? > > 1) Is it at all needed for unify without AFR and/or stripe? No, its not needed in unify. > > 2) For AFR and stripe, are they needed for both the namespace and the > storage filesystems, or only for one of the two? Its needed by the subvolumes of stripe and AFR, whether subvolumes are namespace, or storage backend, it doesn't matter. > > 3) In what other scenarios are extended attributes needed? > Currently its used only by those two translators inside GlusterFS. Linux systems use it for supporting Posix ACLs. if you don't need it, you can go ahead. > > I am trying to see if there is a way to use gluster with FreeBSD/ZFS given > that extended attributes are not yet supported. Depending on where the > xattr > are actually needed I was thinking to perhaps split off components, since > I > only care about ZFS for data storage volume. > Also I figured out that you need some package 'linux-compat' for compatibility of linux packages (This package has all the missing header files). I compiled on a system with this package, hence didn't get any problems with compilation. I noticed with bare minimum installation, this package is not installed. > Thanks, > Jordan > -- Amar Tumballi Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage!
