Are there any other requirements other than xattr support?  Would be cool to 
find ever kernel fs impl and test them automatically on a server (maybe our 
rack space nodes) somewhere for a series of known gluster requirements.

> On Apr 2, 2014, at 6:49 AM, Apostolos Manolitzas <ma...@intracom-telecom.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> as far as I can see, from the UBIFS Faq 
> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html#L_xattr
> 
> UBIFS supports extended attributes if the corresponding configuration option 
> is enabled (no additional mount options are required). It supports the user, 
> trusted, and security name-spaces. However, access control lists (ACL) 
> support is not implemented.
> 
> beyond that, no clue if it's working.
> 
> -Apostolos
> 
>> On 04/02/2014 02:41 PM, Carlos Capriotti wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> i am not very familiar with those filesystems you mentioned, but as a rule 
>> of thumb, a FS for gluster has to support extended attributes, so, this is a 
>> good way to start: check if you can tdo that.
>> 
>> Also, when setting gluster with the recommended configuration, you are 
>> supposed to use XFS, and the inodes have to be defined with -i size=512.
>> 
>> If experimenting with other FS, make sure you can set the inode as well, 
>> just to be in the safe side.
>> 
>> EXT4 is not a good option right now, just in case you are wondering. Lots of 
>> discussion and documentation on those issues in past threads of the list.
>> 
>> Cheers.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Apostolos Manolitzas 
>> <ma...@intracom-telecom.com> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I just discovered the GlusterFS while looking for a solution for high 
>>> availability on our NAND flashes. We use ubifs and jffs2 for filesystem and 
>>> we would like to apply some high availability strategy to a part of the 
>>> flash. So has anyone tested GlusterFS with this setup? Is it a viable 
>>> solution or should we move to an upper layer solution?
>>> 
>>> thanks for any opinion,
>>> 
>>> -Apostolos
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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