-Atin Sent from one plus one On Nov 27, 2015 11:01 PM, "Mountrakis, Michael" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi team > > > > I have a special case here: I am trying to create a glusterFS volume from NFS mounts offered by third party. > > But it fails. The long story has as follows: > > > > I have two 50 GB NFS volumes offered from two data centres: > > In DC1: > > sbox1.mydomain:/q_files > > IN DC2: > > sbox2.mydomain:/q_files > > > > 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. > > > > I have setup a pair of VM nodes running glusterFs. One node on DC1, one on DC2. > > On each of MY nodes, I mount the offered NFS partitions: > > > > The node in DC1 mybox1.mydomain.corp mounts the partition from DC1 machine: > > mount -t nfs sbox1.mydomain:/q_files /nfs > > > > The node in DC2 mybox2.mydomain.corp mounts the partition from DC2 machine: > > mount -t nfs sbox2.mydomain:/q_files /nfs > > > > I do the peering normally… > > root@ mybox1:~ # gluster peer probe mybox2.mydomain > > peer probe: success. Host mybox2.mydomain port 24007 already in peer list > > > > ok so far – no problem. > > > > Then I try to create a glusterFS volume from those mounts: > > root@ mybox1:~ # gluster volume create mynfs replica 2 mybox1.mydomain:/nfs mybox2.mydomain:/nfs force > > volume create: contentstore_nfs: failed: Glusterfs is not supported on brick: mybox1.mydomain:/nfs. > > Setting extended attributes failed, reason: Operation not supported. > > > > I get this message: Operation not supported. Underlying file system of gluster bricks need extended attribute support and hence this failure. > > > > The question is obvious: > > Does GlusterFS supports such an operation? In other words, can I create a glusterFS volume from bricks created from NFS mounts? > > If it is feasible, can you please specify what am I doing wrong? > > > > Best Regards > > mike > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
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