Hi Daniel,
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:06:25AM -0700, Harshavardhana wrote:
> > New option index added to support -o options for various netfs.
> > Currently added an option for glusterfs.
>
> What effect does it have ? Or why do we want/need it
>
Options could be required for filesystem to have few enhaced handling at the
site where they will be under use. Correct approach for a configurable will
be a new "XML" option in this case.
Regarding current patch:
This is required for the glusterfs to work properly with VM's. Right now
there is a
problem/difficulty in using direct-io based mechanism in the fuse kernel
module
when used with "XEN" in its "tap:aio" framework, we have seen xen vms hang
over glusterfs or any fuse based filesystem due to fact that fuse module
doesn't yet support "aio" with O_DIRECT internally as a kernel module. To
have a work around fix we have to hardcode this value due to its usage in
case of VM's.
We are currently fixing this problem by fixing directly O_DIRECT problem in
fuse.
Which will be available in later releases for kernel.
So its just a glusterfs specific case.
>
> > @@ -670,6 +692,12 @@ virStorageBackendFileSystemMount(virConnectPtr conn,
> > }
> >
> > if (pool->def->type == VIR_STORAGE_POOL_NETFS) {
> > + if (pool->def->source.format = VIR_STORAGE_POOL_NETFS_GLUSTERFS)
> {
> > + if (virAsprintf(&options, "direct-io-mode=1") == -1) {
> > + virReportOOMError(conn);
> > + return -1;
> > + }
> > + }
>
> Normally direct-IO mode is something you'd let apps set on a per file
> basis as they desire. QEMU / Xen both know todo this, so I'm not
> convinced we should force it on for the whole mount point.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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