Great, I put things on xfs this weekend and all seems to be running fine. Thanks for the info.
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Vijay Bellur <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/29/2013 07:19 PM, Tony Feldmann wrote: > >> Aren't there concerns with xfs and large files in cases of failures? I >> was under the impression that if xfs was writing to a file and the >> system died it would zero out the entire file. Just hesitant to put >> large vm files on a fs like that. Is this still an issue with xfs? >> > > There are no known problems with recent kernels. There are quite a few > enterprise storage solutions that run on xfs. > > Thanks, > Vijay > > >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Vijay Bellur <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 03/28/2013 08:19 PM, Tony Feldmann wrote: >> >> I have been trying for a month or so to get a 2 node cluster up >> and >> running. I have engine installed on the first node, then add >> each each >> system as a host to a posix dc. Both boxes have 4 data disks. >> After >> adding the hosts I create a distributed replicate volume using 3 >> disk >> from each host with ext4 filesystems. I click the 'optimize for >> virt' >> option on the volume. There is a message in events that says >> that it >> can't set a volume option, then it sets 2 volume options. >> Checking the >> options tab I see that it added the gid/uid options. I was >> unable to >> find in the logs what option was not set, I just see a message >> about >> usage for volume set <volname> <option>. The volume starts fine >> and I >> am able to create a data domain on the volume. Once the domain is >> created I try to create a vm and it fails creating the disk. >> Error >> messages are along the lines of task file exists and can't >> remove task >> files. There are directories under tasks and when trying to >> manually >> remove them I get the "directory not empty" error. Can someone >> please >> shed some light on what I am doing wrong to get this 2 node >> cluster with >> local disk as shared storage up and running? >> >> >> There are known problems with ext4 and gluster at the moment. Can >> you please confirm if you see similar behaviour with xfs and gluster? >> >> Thanks, >> Vijay >> >> >> >
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