On 05/06/2011 10:53 AM, Hans K. Rosbach wrote: >> GlusterFS does support xattrs - I've worked extensively with this >> functionality myself - so it must be the config. Are you sure that >> the server-side bricks which make up your GlusterFS filesystem are >> on filesystems mounted with user_xattr? > > Thank you, that was indeed the fault. You're welcome. > I had thought that GlusterFS would not have worked at all without > user_xattr on the server side, so it did not even occur to me to > check the server side mount. A server log message about this would > probably have been nice. The xattrs used internally are all in the "trusted" namespace so they don't require user_xattr. http://cloudfs.org/2011/04/glusterfs-extended-attributes/ has some more information about internal xattr usage; please let me know if there's information you'd like that's missing. > I am happy to say that I now have no remaining issues with our > glusterfs setup whatsoever after 2 months of extensive testing. The > problems that did show up were quickly corrected in 3.1.3 and 3.1.4. > We are now looking at going to production with the system. That's awesome. The more the merrier. :)
