Dave, The Linux target driver has a back-end module to gluster using libgfapi. You can use iSCSI in this way to connect to gluster. http://stgt.sourceforge.net/ Below I paste the README.glfs file. Feel free to email me if you have any questions about it. ---- The 'glfs' backing-store driver provides block access to a file within the gluster distributed file system (www.gluster.org). The file represents a LUN visible to the initiator (the file may be a regular file in gluster's underlying XFS filesystem, or a gluster "block device"). This configuration gives gluster support for any access method supported by the target driver, such as iSCSI. The backing-store driver uses the interfaces to gluster in libgfapi.so. This file is part of the glusterfs-api package which can be downloaded from www.gluster.org. To build the glfs backing store driver, set the GLFS_BS environment variable (export GLFS_BD=1) before running Make. When a LUN on a target is created with backing store of type glfs (--bstype glfs), a handle to gluster is created. The handle is destroyed when the target is closed. The handle represents a particular volume on a gluster server and a particular file representing the LUN. To set the gluster volume and file, --backing-store takes the form: volume@hostname:filename For example, if the volume name was vol1 , and the host gprfs010, and file name was "disk1", you would set --backing-store to: --backing-store="vol1@gprfs010:disk1" For each CDB, the driver issues an appropriate gluster api call against the handle. For example, WRITE_16 becomes glfs_pwrite(), SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE becomes glfs_fdatasync() and UNMAP becomes glfs_discard(). Each call is synchronous, meaning the thread will wait for a response from gluster before returning to the caller. The libgfapi interfaces support asynchronous calls, and an asynchronous version of the driver has been tested. For more information on the asynchronous version please contact dlambrig@xxxxxxxxxx. If the backing store driver was not used, the linux target driver could still write data to gluster by loopback mounting the gluster file system. The backing-store would be a file within the file system. Gluster uses FUSE to forward I/O from the kernel to it's user space daemon. The overhead incured by FUSE and the kernel is removed when the backing store driver and libgfapi package is used. The libgfapi interfaces supports logs. You can use the --bsopts option to set the logfile and loglevel. --bsops="logfile=glfs.log;loglevel=3" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Christianson" <davidchristianson3@xxxxxxxxx> To: gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 9:11:25 AM Subject: glusterfs via libgfapi as local block device? I see many posts regarding using libgfapi for qemu guest voluimes, but how about as a mounted volume at the OS level? Is there a way to mount a glusterfs share as a local block device in Linux, bypassing the FUSE? Instead of doing a mount -t glusterfs server:/volume, which appears as type fuse.glusterfs, can libgfapi be used to allow direct access and eliminate the fuse overhead? Do i need to set this up as iSCSI target in order for this to work? Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
