Good to hear. With ZFS gaining traction in the Linux world, you might want to talk to the BeeGFS owners/maintainers about making their metadata server more filesystem-agnostic.
> On Oct 7, 2016, at 3:02 PM, Michael Talbott <mtalb...@lji.org> wrote: > > Bummer. Oh well. Just fyi, I have BeeGFS running successfully on OmniOS in LX > zones and is blazing fast. All of the services have been running in LX zones > just fine so far except for the metadata server due to EA needs. So I just > put the metadata server in a KVM instance until hopefully some day down the > road xattrs are made available to LX zones ;) > > THANK YOU LX ZONES!!! > > >> On Sep 30, 2016, at 8:52 PM, Dale Ghent <da...@omniti.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Sep 30, 2016, at 6:57 PM, Michael Talbott <mtalb...@lji.org> wrote: >>> >>> Bummer. Oh well. How about presenting a zvol as a raw device like shown >>> here: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gbebi/index.html >>> >>> I did this, shutdown and rebooted the zone.. and the path the the volume >>> appears under /dev/zvol/dsk/ssdpool/ but that directory is empty when it >>> should contain the name of my zvol :( >>> >>> I figure if I can get that working, then I could format that vol in ext4 so >>> it'd have a way of properly handling xattrs (or so I hope).. Otherwise.. I >>> guess I could present a zvol as an iscsi volume to the linux >>> host/zone/entity and then format that ext4 over iscsi, but I'd rather not >>> add the networking stack in there if I don't have to. >> >> Negative, won't work because the illumos kernel doesn't grok ext4. >> >> In Linux-land, the get/setxattr calls are made from an app, and those calls >> are handed in glibc, which turn around and execute the linux kernel syscall >> for getting and setting xattrs. >> >> This syscalls then run the vfs_get/setxattr VFS layer op that each >> filesystem in Linux implements if it supports xattrs, which then in turn do >> the FS-specfic actions in the relevant FS driver to get and set xattrs on >> the file's on-disk structure. >> >> For xattrs to work with LX brands, the get/setxattr functions in lx_xattr.c >> would need to be more complete and provide a direct translation layer to >> ZFS-style xattrs. >> >> /dale > _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
