On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Anand Babu Periasamy <ab at gluster.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Horacio Sanson <hsanson at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Where can I find documentation about manual configuration of Gluster >> peers/volumes? All documentation seems to be about the gluster CLI. I >> would prefer manual configuration to facilitate automation via scripts >> (e.g. Puppet/Chef). >> >> I also read in this list that it is possible to configure Raid10 via >> text files... ?I would also like to experiment with this setup. Any >> related documents on how to do this would be appreciated. >> >> regards >> Horacio > > > Hi Horacio, > CLI also coordinates with elastic volume manager. You will lose the ability > to perform online volume management operations. Another main reason for > abstraction is to avoid untested combinations. It is possible to use the > auto-generated volume spec files (from /etc/gluster dir) and start > glusterfsd manually. My strong recommendation is to integrate pupper/chef > with Gluster CLI. Integration with CLI takes fewer lines of code than manual > vol spec approach. What trouble did you run in to? ?I think it makes sense > for us to document Gluster / Puppet integration and provide examples. One of the problems I have with gluster/puppet integration is the output format of gluster commands is not parse friendly. In puppet I need to add onlyif and unless options so the gluster commands don't get executed every time. In the case of trusted pools the peer command I can easily check if a peer belongs to a pool: gluster peer status | grep -q -s 192.168.4.91 # Returns 0 if the peer exists or 1 if not but is more complicated to check if a particular peer is connected, disconnected, rejected or whatever status since this value is in a separate line. If the IP address and status were in a single line all would be very easy. > RAID10 like is simply distributed volume with replica count = 2. > -- > Anand Babu Periasamy > Blog [http://www.unlocksmith.org] > > Imagination is more important than knowledge --Albert Einstein > regards, Horacio
