Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS as virtual machine storage

2017-09-09 Thread WK
I'm on 3.10.5. Its rock solid (at least with the fuse mount ) We are also typically on a somewhat slower GlusterFS LAN network (bonded 2x1G, jumbo frames) so that may be a factor. I'll try to setup a trusted pool to test libgfapi soon. I'm curious as to how much faster it is, but the fuse

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS as virtual machine storage

2017-09-09 Thread lemonnierk
Mh, not so sure really, using libgfapi and it's been working perfectly fine. And trust me, there had been A LOT of various crashes, reboots and kill of nodes. Maybe it's a version thing ? A new bug in the new gluster releases that doesn't affect our 3.7.15. On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 10:19:24AM

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS as virtual machine storage

2017-09-09 Thread WK
On 9/8/2017 11:05 PM, Pavel Szalbot wrote: When we return the c1g node, we do see a "pause" in the VMs as the shards heal. By pause meaning a terminal session gets spongy, but that passes pretty quickly. Hmm, do you see any errors in VM's dmesg? Or any other reasons for "sponginess"? No,

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS as virtual machine storage

2017-09-09 Thread WK
Well, that makes me feel better. I've seen all these stories here and on Ovirt recently about VMs going read-only, even on fairly simply layouts. Each time, I've responded that we just don't see those issues. I guess the fact that we were lazy about switching to gfapi turns out to be a

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS as virtual machine storage

2017-09-09 Thread Pavel Szalbot
Yes, this is my observation so far. On Sep 9, 2017 13:32, "Gionatan Danti" wrote: > Il 09-09-2017 09:09 Pavel Szalbot ha scritto: > >> Sorry, I did not start the glusterfsd on the node I was shutting >> yesterday and now killed another one during FUSE test, so it had to >>

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS as virtual machine storage

2017-09-09 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 09-09-2017 09:09 Pavel Szalbot ha scritto: Sorry, I did not start the glusterfsd on the node I was shutting yesterday and now killed another one during FUSE test, so it had to crash immediately (only one of three nodes were actually up). This definitely happened for the first time (only one

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS as virtual machine storage

2017-09-09 Thread Pavel Szalbot
Sorry, I did not start the glusterfsd on the node I was shutting yesterday and now killed another one during FUSE test, so it had to crash immediately (only one of three nodes were actually up). This definitely happened for the first time (only one node had been killed yesterday). Using FUSE

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS as virtual machine storage

2017-09-09 Thread Pavel Szalbot
Hi, On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:35 AM, WK wrote: > Pavel. > > Is there a difference between native client (fuse) and libgfapi in regards > to the crashing/read-only behaviour? I switched to FUSE now and the VM crashed (read-only remount) immediately after one node started