Re: [vdsm] [RFC] GlusterFS domain specific changes
Hello any suggestion/feedback on this?
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:56:15 +0530, "M. Mohan Kumar" <mohan(a)in.ibm.com>
wrote:
We are developing a GlusterFS server translator to export block devices
as regular files to the client. Using block devices to serve VM images
gives performance improvements, since it avoids some file system
bottlenecks in the host kernel. Goal is to use one block device(ie file
at the client side) per VM image and feed this file to QEMU to get the
performance improvements. QEMU will talk to glusterfs server directly
using libgfapi.
Currently we support only exporting Volume groups and Logical
Volumes. Logical volumes are exported as regular files to the client. In
GlusterFS terminology a volume capable of exporting block devices is
created by specifying the 'Volume Group' (ie VG in Logical Volume
management). Block Device translator(BD xlator) exports this volume
group as a directory and LVs under it as regular files. In the gluster
mount point creating a file results in creating a logical volume,
removing a file results in removing logical volume etc.
When a GlusterFS volume enabled with BD xlator is used, directory
creation in that gluster mount path is not supported because directory
maps to Volume groups in BD xlator. But it could be an issue in VDSM
environment when a new VDSM volume is created for GlusterFS domain, VDSM
mounts the storage domain and creates directories under that and create
files for vm image and other uses (like meta data).
Is it possible to modify this behavior in VDSM to use flat structure
instead of creating directories and VM images and other files underneath
it? ie for GlusterFS domain with BD xlator VDSM will not create any
directory and only creates all required files under the mount point
directory itself.
Note:
Patches to enable exporting block devices as regular files are available
in Gluster Gerrit system
http://review.gluster.com/3551
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