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On Nov 27, 2015 11:01 PM, "Mountrakis, Michael" <michael.mountrakis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi team
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> I have a special case here: I am trying to create a glusterFS volume from NFS mounts offered by third party.
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> But it fails. The long story has as follows:
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> I have two 50 GB NFS volumes offered from two data centres:
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> In DC1:
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> sbox1.mydomain:/q_files
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> IN DC2:
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> sbox2.mydomain:/q_files
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> 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.
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> I have setup a pair of VM nodes running glusterFs. One node on DC1, one on DC2.
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> On each of MY nodes, I mount the offered NFS partitions:
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> The node in DC1 mybox1.mydomain.corp mounts the partition from DC1 machine:
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> mount -t nfs sbox1.mydomain:/q_files /nfs
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> The node in DC2 mybox2.mydomain.corp mounts the partition from DC2 machine:
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> mount -t nfs sbox2.mydomain:/q_files /nfs
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> I do the peering normally…
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> root@ mybox1:~ # gluster peer probe mybox2.mydomain
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> peer probe: success. Host mybox2.mydomain port 24007 already in peer list
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> ok so far – no problem.
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> Then I try to create a glusterFS volume from those mounts:
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> root@ mybox1:~ # gluster volume create mynfs replica 2 mybox1.mydomain:/nfs mybox2.mydomain:/nfs force
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> volume create: contentstore_nfs: failed: Glusterfs is not supported on brick: mybox1.mydomain:/nfs.
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> Setting extended attributes failed, reason: Operation not supported.
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> I get this message: Operation not supported.
Underlying file system of gluster bricks need extended attribute support and hence this failure.
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> The question is obvious:
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> Does GlusterFS supports such an operation? In other words, can I create a glusterFS volume from bricks created from NFS mounts?
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> If it is feasible, can you please specify what am I doing wrong?
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> Best Regards
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> mike
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