On 03/15/2016 11:48 AM, Jiffin Tony Thottan wrote: > Hi all, > > The subdir export is one of key features for NFS server. NFS-ganesha > have already supports subdir export, > but it has lot of limitations when it is intregrated with gluster. > > Current Implementation : > Following steps are required for a subdir export > * export volume using ganesha.enable option > * edit the export configuration file by adding subdir options > * do refresh-config in that node using ganesha-ha.sh > * limitation : multiple directories cannot be exported at a time via > script. > If user to need to do that(it is possible), all the > steps should be done in manually > which includes creating export conf file, use latest > export id, include it in ganesha conf etc. > And also here it become mandatory to export root > before exporting subdir. > > Suggested approach : > > * Introduce new volume set command "ganesha.subdir" which will handle > above mentioned issue cleanly > for example, gluster volume set <volname> ganesha.subdir > <path1,path2,path3 ...> > if u want to unexport path2, use the same command with mentioning path2 > gluster volume set <volname> ganesha.subdir <path1,path3 ...>.(Is > different option required ?) How do you handle a case where you have to unexport all the paths? > The root of the volume should be export only using ganesha.enable > options. > This require a lot of additions in glusterd code base and minor > changes in snapshot functionality. Could you detail out what all changes will be required in glusterd codebase when volume set ganesha.subdir <list of path> is executed? Based on that we can only take a call whether its feasible to take this in 3.7.x or move it to 3.8. > > Can above mentioned improvement targeted for 3.7.x release (3.7.10 or > 3.7.11) or should I need to move it for 3.8 release ? > Please provide your valuable feedback on the same. > > Please Note : It is not related to subdir export for fuse mount. > > Regards, > Jiffin > > _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
