Mounting using OpenLMI

Ramesh rnachimu at redhat.com
Fri Sep 19 04:57:44 UTC 2014


On 09/18/2014 05:51 PM, Russell Doty wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 14:59 +0530, Ramesh wrote:
>> On 09/18/2014 02:55 PM, Ramesh wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/18/2014 02:47 PM, Jan Safranek wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 09/18/2014 10:35 AM, Ramesh Nachimuthu wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>    I am trying to mount a disk using OpenLMI through WBEM(using YAWN CIM
>>>>> Browser). I am calling the method *"LMI_MountConfigurationService ::
>>>>> CreateMount()". *It mounts the file system successfully, but it doesn't
>>>>> put an entry into /etc/fstab to make it persistent. I tried with
>>>>> parameter "Mode=1" as well as "Mode=2". But no help. Is creating the
>>>>> entry in /etc/fstab is supported? if yes please point me to some doc links.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am following the doc at http://www.openlmi.org/agent_storage_mount-model
>>>> Hello Ramesh,
>>>>
>>>> as the page says, it's just draft of our mounting design. What was
>>>> actually implemented is documented at
>>>> http://www.openlmi.org/sites/default/files/doc/admin/openlmi-storage/latest/usage-mounting.html
>>>> and fstab editing is currently not implemented. It will be addressed in
>>>> a future release, however it will take some time to implement it -
>>>> blivet library we use for storage management does not support it.
>>>>
>>> I think its worth mentioning this limitation in the page
>>> http://www.openlmi.org/sites/default/files/doc/admin/openlmi-storage/latest/usage-mounting.html
>>>
>>> This pages talks in detail about 'IsNext" and "IsCurrent" but its not supported by the system.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ramesh
>>>
>>
>> My apologies. :( :(
>> Its mentioned in the document. But not in the right place.
> Ramesh,
>
> Is this a critical short term need, or can you work around it?
> Russ


We are trying to use openlmi for disk provisioning in Ovirt (gluster 
integration). This limitation prevents us from directly using openlmi 
from ovirt-engine (JBoss server). We can work around this by going 
through VDSM layer.

Regards,
Ramesh

>> Regards,
>> Ramesh
>>>> Jan
>>>>
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