On 17-3-2020 21:31, Strahil Nikolov wrote: > On March 17, 2020 10:21:53 PM GMT+02:00, Shareef Jalloq > <shar...@jalloq.co.uk> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to set up a hosted engine on an NFS share provided by a >> Synology >> NAS. I've been reading the info and threads regarding the requirement >> that >> the share be owned by vdsm:kvm with uid:gid of 36:36, but this seems >> impossible to set on modern Synology boxes. >> >> My understanding of DSM is that the user doesn't have control of the >> UID >> and GID of users. You can ssh in and modify /etc/passwd but these >> files >> are auto-generated from Synology's own scripts so changes here will not >> persist across reboots. Is that correct? >> >> Secondly, having read lots of posts about permissions and various >> issues >> around export settings, why isn't this documented anywhere? There just >> seems to be lots of contradictory posts. For example, my experience >> has >> been: >> >> - my Synology vdsm:kvm ids are 1028:65536 >> - the permissions on the NFS export are 777, anything else gives >> permissions errors in HE setup >> - the hosted engine install went fine with these settings. >> - the nfs-check.py script provided to check the NFS export fails but >> the >> installation still completes. >> >> So are these issues specific to Synology or is the documentation out >> there >> just wrong? >> >> #confused >> >> Cheers, Shareef. > Actually, > I have seen users using anonuid=36,anonguid=36,all_squash (or whatever were > the anon user options) which forces all users on the share to be mapped to > nfsnobody and that user/group will have uid of '36'. > > Yes, thats the way I do it. If you add the exports using the UI you don't get the right lines in /etc/exports but if you enable ssh access you can edit the file and than do: mkdir -p /volume1/ovirt/{he|data} chown -R 36:36 /volume1/ovirt install oVirt using the nfs path your.nas:/volume1/ovirt/he
That should work. Greetings, Joop _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/2IOKWWYWZSKZKVBEGXHNSXWMWCCIK6Z5/