[pve-devel] [PATCH] GlusterFS should only support KVM/QEMU disk images.

Stoyan Marinov stoyan at marinov.us
Tue Mar 1 14:22:35 CET 2016


May I ask why? What's wrong with keeping your ISO images and/or backups on gluster?

On Mar 1, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Wolfgang Link <w.link at proxmox.com> wrote:

> GlusterFS is slower if you use the client and not the QEMU driver.
> So to guaranty that GlusterFS perform good allow only KVM/QEMU disk images.
> Also remove the vmdk format because it makes no sense. It is much slower then qcow2.
> ---
> PVE/Storage/GlusterfsPlugin.pm | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/PVE/Storage/GlusterfsPlugin.pm b/PVE/Storage/GlusterfsPlugin.pm
> index 315c5a6..1fd562e 100644
> --- a/PVE/Storage/GlusterfsPlugin.pm
> +++ b/PVE/Storage/GlusterfsPlugin.pm
> @@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ sub type {
> 
> sub plugindata {
>     return {
> -	content => [ { images => 1, rootdir => 1, vztmpl => 1, iso => 1, backup => 1},
> +	content => [ { images => 1 },
> 		     { images => 1 }],
> -	format => [ { raw => 1, qcow2 => 1, vmdk => 1 } , 'raw' ],
> +	format => [ { raw => 1, qcow2 => 1 } , 'raw' ],
>     };
> }
> 
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 
> 
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