One other note.. we have measured good performance results testing gluster when 
drives are completely replaced with flash.

http://www.gluster.org/2014/03/experiments-using-ssds-with-gluster/



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Vyas" <[email protected]>
To: "Apostolos Manolitzas" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 9:37:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] linux flash filesystems and GlusterFS

Are there any other requirements other than xattr support? Would be cool to 
find ever kernel fs impl and test them automatically on a server (maybe our 
rack space nodes) somewhere for a series of known gluster requirements. 

On Apr 2, 2014, at 6:49 AM, Apostolos Manolitzas < [email protected] > 
wrote: 




Hello, 

as far as I can see, from the UBIFS Faq 
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html#L_xattr 

UBIFS supports extended attributes if the corresponding configuration option is 
enabled (no additional mount options are required). It supports the user , 
trusted , and security name-spaces. However, access control lists (ACL) support 
is not implemented. 

beyond that, no clue if it's working. 

-Apostolos 

On 04/02/2014 02:41 PM, Carlos Capriotti wrote: 



Hi. 

i am not very familiar with those filesystems you mentioned, but as a rule of 
thumb, a FS for gluster has to support extended attributes, so, this is a good 
way to start: check if you can tdo that. 

Also, when setting gluster with the recommended configuration, you are supposed 
to use XFS, and the inodes have to be defined with -i size=512. 

If experimenting with other FS, make sure you can set the inode as well, just 
to be in the safe side. 

EXT4 is not a good option right now, just in case you are wondering. Lots of 
discussion and documentation on those issues in past threads of the list. 

Cheers. 


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Apostolos Manolitzas < 
[email protected] > wrote: 



Hello all, 

I just discovered the GlusterFS while looking for a solution for high 
availability on our NAND flashes. We use ubifs and jffs2 for filesystem and we 
would like to apply some high availability strategy to a part of the flash. So 
has anyone tested GlusterFS with this setup? Is it a viable solution or should 
we move to an upper layer solution? 

thanks for any opinion, 

-Apostolos 






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