<div dir="ltr">is anyone has any thoughts on this?<div><br></div><div>Sateesh</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:44 PM, satish kondapalli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nitw.satish@gmail.com" target="_blank">nitw.satish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I want to mount gluster volume as a root file system for my node. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Can someone help me on this?</div><div><br></div><div>Sateesh</div></div>
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