Add PosixFS (experimental) #1081
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Co-authored-by: Phil Davis <[email protected]>
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| To use the PosixFS Storage Driver, the following prerequisites have to be fulfilled: | ||
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| * There must be storage available to store meta data and blobs, available under a root path. |
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Just as a general note, blobs and metadata both live in the same file in the posixfs (the file contains the actual data, and the metadata is attached directly to that file), in contrast to decomposedfs. Not sure if that should be worded differently.
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| * There must be storage available to store meta data and blobs, available under a root path. | ||
| * When using inotify, the storage must be local on the same machine. + | ||
| Network mounts require `inotifywait` to be installed (inotify does not work here). |
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This is not really correct. inotifywait is a hard requirement for the inotify watcher, regardless if it's a mounted remote filesystem or a local one.
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| === GPFS Specifics | ||
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| When using GPFS as the underlying filesystem, the machine running the xref:{s-path}/storage-users.adoc[Storage-Users] service needs to have the GPFS filesystem mounted locally. The mount path is given to ocis as the `STORAGE_USERS_POSIX_ROOT` path. |
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nitpick: the user doesn't necessarily have to set the mount path as the posix root. Instead the posix root is the directory where posixfs keeps it data. It may be the mount path or any subdirectory of it.
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@aduffeck I have incorporated your suggestions, pls have a look |
Fixes: #1080 (Add PosixFS (experimental) to available storages)
This PR adds a description for the PosixFS driver (experimental state)
No backport
@phil-davis a language review is welcomed