Hi Paul, I would prefer to do a direct mount for local disk. However I am not certain how to configure a single system with both local storage and bluster replicated storage.
- The “Configure Local Storage” option for Hosts wants to make a datacenter and cluster for the system. I presume that’s because oVirt wants to be able to mount the storage on all hosts in a datacenter. - Configuring a POSIX storage domain with local disk does not work as oVirt wants to mount the disk on all systems in the datacenter. I suppose my third option would be to put these systems as libvirt VMs and not manage them with oVirt. This is fairly reasonable as I use Foreman for provisioning except that I will need to figure out how to make them co-exist. Has anyone tried this? Am I missing other options for local non-replicated disk? Thanks, David -- David King On August 29, 2014 at 3:01:49 PM, Paul Robert Marino (prmari...@gmail.com) wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbel...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 08/29/2014 07:34 PM, David King wrote: >> >> Paul, >> >> Thanks for the response. >> >> You mention that the issue is orphaned files during updates when one >> node is down. However I am less concerned about adding and removing >> files because the file server will be predominately VM disks so the file >> structure is fairly static. Those VM files will be quite active however >> - will gluster be able to keep track of partial updates to a large file >> when one out of two bricks are down? >> > > Yes, gluster only updates regions of the file that need to be synchronized > during self-healing. More details on this synchronization can be found in > the self-healing section of afr's design document [1]. > > >> Right now I am leaning towards using SSD for "host local" disk - single >> brick gluster volumes intended for VMs which are node specific and then I wouldn't use single brick gluster volumes for local disk you don't need it and it will actually make it more complicated with no real benefits. >> 3 way replicas for the higher availability zones which tend to be more >> read oriented. I presume that read-only access only needs to get data >> from one of the 3 replicas so that should be reasonably performant. > > > Yes, read operations are directed to only one of the replicas. > > Regards, > Vijay > > [1] https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/features/afr-v1.md >
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