Re: [Gluster-devel] Qemu glusterfs, exposing complete bricks instead of individual images as shared storage to VM's ?

2013-11-30 Thread Niels de Vos
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:06:33PM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using glusterfs for quite some time on my server for shared-storage to > VM's. > At the moment this had to go over tcp/ip bridge between host and guests, so > i was interested in the option to use glusterfs directly

Re: [Gluster-devel] Qemu glusterfs, exposing complete bricks instead of individual images as shared storage to VM's ?

2013-11-29 Thread James
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > Erhmm well that's why glusterfs is momentarily in between :-) > > I have a LVM volume "shared_data" on the host .. which I export as a brick > with glusterfs. > Multiple VM's mount this brick over the tcp/ip transport, and all seems to >

Re: [Gluster-devel] Qemu glusterfs, exposing complete bricks instead of individual images as shared storage to VM's ?

2013-11-29 Thread Sander Eikelenboom
Saturday, November 30, 2013, 12:48:44 AM, you wrote: > Should be possible to specify another block device to QEMU and format that > and use a filesystem, however the problem here is that if multiple devices > use the same block device, then your filesystem will explode (get corrupted) > if you

Re: [Gluster-devel] Qemu glusterfs, exposing complete bricks instead of individual images as shared storage to VM's ?

2013-11-29 Thread Sander Eikelenboom
Saturday, November 30, 2013, 12:32:50 AM, you wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Sander Eikelenboom > wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using glusterfs for quite some time on my server for shared-storage to > VM's. > At the moment this had to go over tcp/ip bridge between host and gues

Re: [Gluster-devel] Qemu glusterfs, exposing complete bricks instead of individual images as shared storage to VM's ?

2013-11-29 Thread James
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using glusterfs for quite some time on my server for shared-storage to > VM's. > At the moment this had to go over tcp/ip bridge between host and guests, so > i was interested in the option to use glusterfs directly with qemu

[Gluster-devel] Qemu glusterfs, exposing complete bricks instead of individual images as shared storage to VM's ?

2013-11-29 Thread Sander Eikelenboom
Hi, I'm using glusterfs for quite some time on my server for shared-storage to VM's. At the moment this had to go over tcp/ip bridge between host and guests, so i was interested in the option to use glusterfs directly with qemu. But it seems it only supports to expose individual images files that