Re: [Xen-API] Storage Repository FileSR on ZFS won't work - Linux

[Dawid Kowalski <dkadds2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just as a form of an update. I'm stuck trying to get NFS working as no 
other way to use ZFS in background seems to be available for me. iSCSI 
share option for ZFS is not available on Linux. Should I try to enable 
it I'd need to add third-party daemon.
I'm looking forward for your help in NFS context.

In regards to nosync - I'm happy to give it a try as it's just a test 
system now but I'd prefer to find working solution.
I've spent couple of days/evenings already fighting to get Xen working 
on Ubuntu with ZFS and I'm close to give up and try KVM. It's way to 
complicated.
I'll still keep trying...

Thanks,
Dawid


On 30/12/14 18:40, Dave Scott wrote:
> > On 30 Dec 2014, at 17:24, Dawid Kowalski <dkadds2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'll answer myself.
> >
> > Modifying td.c line 258 to skip O_DIRECT and recompiling doesn't help.
> > For some unexplained reasons, it calls O_DIRECT flag still:
> Hm. As an experiment you could try an LD_PRELOAD wrapper like this:
>
> http://www.mcgill.org.za/stuff/software/nosync
>
> Before using anything like this for data you care about, we need to think it through a 
> little to make sure itâs safe. Perhaps Linux zfs support for iSCSI is safer? (Sorry 
> to flip-flop on this, Iâm not very familiar with ZFS)
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
> > strace ./td-util create vhd 2048 /path/to/file
> > open("/path/to/file", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_DIRECT, 0644) = -1 EINVAL 
> > (Invalid argument)
> > exit_group(22)                          = ?
> > +++ exited with 22 +++
> >
> > Checking other files with O_WRONLY flag doesn't bring any ideas as none of them use 
> > "O_DIRECT".
> >
> > lock.c:        fd = open(buf, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0644);
> > lock.c:        fd = open(lockfn, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0644);
> > lock.c:                fd = open(lockfn_flink, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0644);
> > tapdisk-vbd.c:    fd = open(fn, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_NONBLOCK, 0666);
> > td.c:    fd = open(name, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0644);
> >
> >
> > Any ideas how to fix FileSR for ZFS on Linux?
> >
> > Seems like I'm left with iScsi approach only.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dawid
> >
> > On 30/12/14 18:11, Dawid Kowalski wrote:
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > Just wanted to report that file based Storage Repository won't work on Linux 
> > > systems as td-util is required O_DIRECT when creating image file not supported 
> > > on ZFS (Linux).
> > >
> > > When creating vm, i.e. vm-import it calls td-util similar to below:
> > > td-util create vhd 2048 /path/to/file
> > >
> > > Strace shows:
> > > open("/path/to/file", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_DIRECT, 0644) = -1 EINVAL 
> > > (Invalid argument)
> > >
> > > I'll try to patch td.c to skip O_DIRECT flag but this is rather dirty hack than 
> > > proper solution of the problem.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Dawid
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