I don't think this is possible. I'd like to what why do you want to use use a root file system as a Gluster volume, what's your use case. Technically this is impossible (wrt GlusterD) as we then have no way to segregate the configuration data. ~Atin On 10/15/2015 12:09 AM, satish kondapalli wrote: > is anyone has any thoughts on this? > > Sateesh > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:44 PM, satish kondapalli > <nitw.satish@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:nitw.satish@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to mount gluster volume as a root file system for my node. > > Node will boot from network( only kernel and initrd images) but my > root file system has to be one of the gluster volume ( bricks of the > volume are on the disks which are attached to the same node). > Gluster configuration files also part of the root file system. > > Here i am facing chicken and egg problem. Initially i thought to > keep glusterfs libs, binary in the initrd and start the gluster > server as part of initrd execution. But for mounting root file > system (which is a gluster volume), all the gluster configuration > files are stored in the root file system. My assumption is, without > gluster configuration files(/var/lib/glusterd/xx) gluster will not > find any volumes. > > Can someone help me on this? > > Sateesh > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
