How do I integrate ZFS with Bright?

How do I integrate ZFS on Bright?

Here's a recipe to follow:

Installing and Configuring A ZFS filesystem on top of a Bright Cluster

CENTOS 6

On the head node

Install the required repositories and packages:
[root@b70-c6 ~]# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/epel/zfs-release.el6.noarch.rpm15

(optional step to save the repository RPM for future/local usage)
[root@b70-c6 ~]# wget -c http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/epel/zfs-release.el6.noarch.rpm15
[root@b70-c6 ~]# yum install zfs

Create a 10GB file to host the ZFS filesystem for testing

[root@b70-c6 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/opt/zfs.img bs=1073741824 count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 238.08 s, 45.1 MB/s

Create a ZFS pool

[root@b70-c6 ~]# zpool create localzfs /opt/zfs.img

Create a ZFS filesystem

[root@b70-c6 ~]# zfs create localzfs/data
[root@b70-c6 ~]# df -hT
Filesystem     Type   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda3      ext3    38G   23G   14G  64% /
tmpfs          tmpfs  2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/vda1      ext2   504M   24M  456M   5% /boot
localzfs       zfs    9.8G  128K  9.8G   1% /localzfs
localzfs/data  zfs    9.8G  128K  9.8G   1% /localzfs/data

On the head node, the ZFS daemon must be loaded at startup so that it can automatically mount the ZFS pools which are defined in /etc/zfs/zpool.cache without adding an entry in /etc/fstab
[root@b70-c6 ~]# chkconfig zfs on
[root@b70-c6 ~]# /etc/init.d/zfs status
 pool: localzfs
state: ONLINE
 scan: none requested
config:
    NAME            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
    localzfs        ONLINE       0     0     0
    /opt/zfs.img    ONLINE       0     0     0
errors: No known data errors
NAME            USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
localzfs        148K  9.78G    31K  /localzfs
localzfs/data    30K  9.78G    30K  /localzfs/data

Zfs is up and running on the head at this point.

On the compute nodes

Install the required repositories and packages inside the software image:
[root@b70-c7 ~]# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/epel/zfs-release.el7.noarch.rpm38 --installroot=/cm/images/default-image
[root@b70-c7 ~]# yum install zfs --nogpgcheck --installroot=/cm/images/default-image
[root@b70-c6 ~]# yum install zfs --installroot=/cm/images/default-image/

make sure that the zfs service is disabled on boot in the software image

[root@b70-c6 ~]# chroot /cm/images/default-image/
[root@b70-c6 /]# chkconfig --list | grep zfs
zfs                0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off

Create a 5G file to host the ZFS filesystem for testing on the node:

[root@node001 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/opt/zfs.img bs=1073741824 count=5
5+0 records in
5+0 records out
5368709120 bytes (5.4 GB) copied, 73.3398 s, 73.2 MB/s

Configure the excludelistsyncinstall and excludelistupdate excludelists:

[root@b70-c6 ~]# cmsh
[b70-c6]% category use default
[b70-c6->category[default]]% set excludelistsyncinstall
[...]
- /opt/zfs.img
- /etc/zfs/*
[...]
no-new-files: - /opt/zfs.img
no-new-files: - /etc/zfs/*
[...]
[b70-c6->category*[default*]]% commit
[b70-c6->category[default]]% set excludelistupdate
[...]
- /opt/zfs.img
- /etc/zfs/*
[...]
no-new-files: - /opt/zfs.img
no-new-files: - /etc/zfs/*
[...]
[b70-c6->category*[default*]]% commit

Create a ZFS pool:
[root@node001 ~]# zpool create localnfs /opt/zfs.img
[root@node001 ~]# zfs create localnfs/data
[root@node001 ~]# /etc/init.d/zfs status
 pool: localnfs
state: ONLINE
 scan: none requested
config:
    NAME            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
    localnfs        ONLINE       0     0     0
    /opt/zfs.img    ONLINE       0     0     0
errors: No known data errors
NAME            USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
localnfs        148K  4.89G    31K  /localnfs
localnfs/data    30K  4.89G    30K  /localnfs/data

Modify /etc/rc.local to start ZFS automatically on startup after the modules are generated
[root@b70-c6 ~]# cat /cm/images/default-image/etc/rc.local
[...]
/etc/init.d/zfs restart

Mark the node as a datanode:
root@b70-c6 ~]# cmsh
[b70-c6]% device use node001
[b70-c6->device[node001]]% set d
datanode        deviceheight    deviceposition  disksetup       
[b70-c6->device[node001]]% set datanode yes
[b70-c6->device*[node001*]]% commit

No restart needed for the regular nodes.

That's it, ZFS is running on the cluster.