On March 27, 2020 11:26:25 AM GMT+02:00, Christian Reiss <em...@christian-reiss.de> wrote: >Hey Jayme, > >thanks for replying; sorry for the delay. >If I am understanding this right, there is no real official way to >enable libgfapi. If you somehow manage to get it running then you will >lose HA capabilities, which is something we like on our production >servers. > >The most recent post I could find on the matter >(https://www.mail-archive.com/users@ovirt.org/msg59664.html) read like >its worth a try for hobyyists, but for production servers I do am a >little bit scared. > >Do you maybe have any document or other source that does work with >4.3.x >versions and inspires confidence? :-) > >-Chris > >On 24/03/2020 19:49, Jayme wrote: >> I strongly believe that FUSE mount is the real reason for poor >> performance in HCI and these minor gluster and other tweaks won't >> satisfy most seeking i/o performance. Enabling libgfapi is probably >the >> best option. Redhat has recently closed bug reports related to >libgfapi >> citing won't fix and one comment suggests that libgfapi was not >showing >> good enough performance to bother with which appears to contradict >what >> many oVirt users are seeing. It's confusing to me why libgfapi as a >> default option is not being given any priority. >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1465810 >> >> "We do not plan to enable libgfapi for oVirt/RHV. We did not find >enough >> performance improvement justification for it"
Hey All, Direct libvirt access via libgfapi causes loss of some features , but this is not the only option. You can always use NFS Ganesha, which uses libgfapi to reach the gluster servers, while providing access via NFS. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/GJQ5Y4ZT4WJRJIMYY7G3WNOURFBX2QGB/
