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