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

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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I don't think this is possible. I'd like to what why do you want to use
use a root file system as a Gluster volume, what's your use case.
Technically this is impossible (wrt GlusterD) as we then have no way to
segregate the configuration data.

~Atin

On 10/15/2015 12:09 AM, satish kondapalli wrote:
> is anyone has any thoughts on this?
> 
> Sateesh
> 
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:44 PM, satish kondapalli
> <nitw.satish at gmail.com <mailto: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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