Thanks again. Jordan On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Amar S. Tumballi <amar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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!
