Gluster users - Oct 2015 - [Gluster-devel] Glusterfs as a root file system on the same node

Hi,

I want to mount  gluster volume as a root file system for my node.

Node will boot from network( only kernel and initrd images) but my root
file system has to be one of the gluster volume ( bricks of the volume are
on the disks which are attached to the same node).  Gluster configuration
files also part of the root file system.

Here i am facing chicken and egg problem.  Initially i thought to keep
glusterfs libs, binary in the initrd and start the gluster server as part
of initrd execution. But for mounting root file system (which is a gluster
volume), all the gluster configuration files are stored in the root file
system. My assumption is, without gluster configuration
files(/var/lib/glusterd/xx) gluster will not find any volumes.

Can someone help me on this?

Sateesh
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is anyone has any thoughts on this?

Sateesh

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:44 PM, satish kondapalli <nitw.satish at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to mount  gluster volume as a root file system for my node.
>
> Node will boot from network( only kernel and initrd images) but my root
> file system has to be one of the gluster volume ( bricks of the volume are
> on the disks which are attached to the same node).  Gluster configuration
> files also part of the root file system.
>
> Here i am facing chicken and egg problem.  Initially i thought to keep
> glusterfs libs, binary in the initrd and start the gluster server as part
> of initrd execution. But for mounting root file system (which is a gluster
> volume), all the gluster configuration files are stored in the root file
> system. My assumption is, without gluster configuration
> files(/var/lib/glusterd/xx) gluster will not find any volumes.
>
> Can someone help me on this?
>
> Sateesh
>
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