On Sun 11 Dec 2011 10:15:23 AM EST, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Saggi Mizrahi"<smizr...@redhat.com>
>> To: "VDSM Project Development"<vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org>,
>> engine-de...@ovirt.org
>> Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 5:41:42 PM
>> Subject: [Engine-devel] shared fs support
>>
>>
>> Hi, I have preliminary (WIP) patches for shared FS up on gerrit.
>> There is a lot of work to be done reorganizing the patches but I
>> just wanted all the TLV guys to have a chance to look at it on
>> Sunday.
>>
>> I did some testing and should work as expected for most cases.
>>
>> To test just connectStorageServer with storageType=6 (sharedfs)
>> connection params are
>> {'id'=1,
>> 'spec'='server:/export'
>> 'vfs_type'='nfs\gluster\smb'
>> 'mnt_options'='opt,opt=3,opt' }
>>
>> to check with an existing NFS domain you can just
>> spec=server:/export
>> vfs_type=nfs
>> mnt_options=soft,timeo=600,retrans=6,nosharecache,vers=3
>
> So does that mean that we treat nfs custom types differently -eg using the
> out or process stuff?
>
>
>>
>> I only tested NFS but I am going to test more exotic stuff on Monday.
>>
>> This is the patch to build the RPM from.
>> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#change,560
>>
>> Have a good weekend
>>
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Using the custom NFS will give you the tested supported options and
limits. Using sharedfs will give you a generic implementation.
Currently the underlying implementation is the same. But there is a
plan to use a simpler implementation (without using OOP as it's an NFS
specific hack) and also loose stale handle checks and other NFS
specific stuff.
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