Can I create a gluster volume from NFS mounted partitions?

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Hi team

 

I have a special case here: I am trying to create a glusterFS volume from NFS mounts offered by third party.

But it fails. The long story has as follows:

 

I have two 50 GB NFS volumes offered from two data centres:

In DC1:

sbox1.mydomain:/q_files

IN DC2:

sbox2.mydomain:/q_files

 

I dont have even ssh access to those sboxes so I cannot install or do anything, but I am allowed to mount their directories with r/w over tcp.

 

I have setup  a pair of VM nodes running glusterFs. One node on DC1, one on DC2.

On each of MY nodes, I mount the offered NFS partitions:

 

The node in DC1  mybox1.mydomain.corp mounts the partition from DC1 machine:

mount -t nfs sbox1.mydomain:/q_files   /nfs

 

The node in DC2 mybox2.mydomain.corp mounts the partition from DC2 machine:

mount -t nfs sbox2.mydomain:/q_files   /nfs

 

I do the peering normally…

root@ mybox1:~ # gluster peer probe mybox2.mydomain

peer probe: success. Host mybox2.mydomain port 24007 already in peer list

 

ok so far – no problem.

 

Then I try to create a glusterFS volume from those mounts:

root@ mybox1:~ # gluster volume create mynfs replica 2 mybox1.mydomain:/nfs mybox2.mydomain:/nfs force

volume create: contentstore_nfs: failed: Glusterfs is not supported on brick: mybox1.mydomain:/nfs.

Setting extended attributes failed, reason: Operation not supported.

 

I get this message: Operation not supported.

 

The question is obvious:

Does GlusterFS supports such an operation? In other words, can I create a glusterFS volume from bricks created from NFS mounts?

If it is feasible, can you please specify what am I doing wrong?

 

Best Regards

mike

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