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Re: Nova and external NFS

 

There was discussion on the list recently of a similar problem using nfs4. Perhaps their solution will work for you:

http://www.mail-archive.com/openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg09440.html

Vish

On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Sergio Ariel de la Campa Saiz wrote:

> Hello:
>  
> I have found some examples to configure NFS in Nova. But all of them use one of the hosts as NFS server. In my case, I need to use an external NFS server, which do not have installed OpenStack.
> I have been working on it but I have found some problems. For example: when I created a new instance these are the files that were created:
>  
> root@opst1:~# ll /nfs/NOVA-INST-DIR/instances/instance-00000015/
> total 29284
> drwxrwxr-x 2 nobody nogroup     4096 abr 25  2012 ./
> drwxrwxrwx 4 root   root        4096 abr 25  2012 ../
> -rw-rw---- 1 root   root           0 abr 25  2012 console.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    25165824 abr 25  2012 disk
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     6291968 abr 25  2012 disk.local
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root   root     4790624 abr 25  2012 kernel
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nogroup     1856 abr 25  2012 libvirt.xml
> Instead of libvirt-qemu and kvm, root is the owner of the files.
>  
> Please.. help me about it
>  
> Thanks a lot...
>  
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