ZFS (on Linux) Driver¶
Manila ZFSonLinux share driver uses ZFS filesystem for exporting NFS shares. Written and tested using Linux version of ZFS.
Requirements¶
‘NFS’ daemon that can be handled via “exportfs” app.
‘ZFS’ filesystem packages, either Kernel or FUSE versions.
ZFS zpools that are going to be used by Manila should exist and be configured as desired. Manila will not change zpool configuration.
For remote ZFS hosts according to manila-share service host SSH should be installed.
- For ZFS hosts that support replication:
- SSH access for each other should be passwordless.
- IP used for share exports should be available by ZFS hosts for each other.
- Username should be the same for accessing each of ZFS hosts.
Supported Operations¶
The following operations are supported:
Create NFS Share
Delete NFS Share
- Allow NFS Share access
- Only IP access type is supported for NFS
- Both access levels are supported - ‘RW’ and ‘RO’
Deny NFS Share access
Create snapshot
Delete snapshot
Create share from snapshot
Extend share
Shrink share
- Replication (experimental):
- Create/update/delete/promote replica operations are supported
Possibilities¶
- Any amount of ZFS zpools can be used by share driver.
- Allowed to configure default options for ZFS datasets that are used for share creation.
- Any amount of nested datasets is allowed to be used.
- All share replicas are read-only, only active one is RW.
- All share replicas are synchronized periodically, not continuously. So, status ‘in_sync’ means latest sync was successful. Time range between syncs equals to value of config global opt ‘replica_state_update_interval’.
Restrictions¶
The ZFSonLinux share driver has the following restrictions:
- Only IP access type is supported for NFS.
- Only FLAT network is supported.
- ‘Promote share replica’ operation will switch roles of current ‘secondary’ replica and ‘active’. It does not make more than one active replica available.
- ‘Manage share’ operation is not yet implemented.
- ‘SaMBa’ based sharing is not yet implemented.
Known problems¶
- Better to avoid usage of Neutron on the same node where ZFS is installed. It leads to bug - https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1546723 The ZFSonLinux share driver has workaround for it and requires ‘nsenter’ be installed on the system where ZFS is installed.
- ‘Promote share replica’ operation will make ZFS filesystem that became secondary as RO only on NFS level. On ZFS level system will stay mounted as was - RW.
Backend Configuration¶
The following parameters need to be configured in the manila configuration file for the ZFSonLinux driver:
share_driver = manila.share.drivers.zfsonlinux.driver.ZFSonLinuxShareDriver
driver_handles_share_servers = False
- replication_domain = custom_str_value_as_domain_name
- if empty, then replication will be disabled
- if set then will be able to be used as replication peer for other backend with same value.
zfs_share_export_ip = <user_facing IP address of ZFS host>
zfs_service_ip = <IP address of service network interface of ZFS host>
- zfs_zpool_list = zpoolname1,zpoolname2/nested_dataset_for_zpool2
- can be one or more zpools
- can contain nested datasets
- zfs_dataset_creation_options = <list of ZFS dataset options>
- readonly,quota,sharenfs and sharesmb options will be ignored
- zfs_dataset_name_prefix = <prefix>
- Prefix to be used in each dataset name.
- zfs_dataset_snapshot_name_prefix = <prefix>
- Prefix to be used in each dataset snapshot name.
- zfs_use_ssh = <boolean_value>
- set ‘False’ if ZFS located on the same host as ‘manila-share’ service
- set ‘True’ if ‘manila-share’ service should use SSH for ZFS configuration
- zfs_ssh_username = <ssh_username>
- required for replication operations
- required for SSH’ing to ZFS host if ‘zfs_use_ssh’ is set to ‘True’
- zfs_ssh_user_password = <ssh_user_password>
- password for ‘zfs_ssh_username’ of ZFS host.
- used only if ‘zfs_use_ssh’ is set to ‘True’
- zfs_ssh_private_key_path = <path_to_private_ssh_key>
- used only if ‘zfs_use_ssh’ is set to ‘True’
- zfs_share_helpers = NFS=manila.share.drivers.zfsonlinux.utils.NFSviaZFSHelper
- Approach for setting up helpers is similar to various other share driver
- At least one helper should be used.
- zfs_replica_snapshot_prefix = <prefix>
- Prefix to be used in dataset snapshot names that are created by ‘update replica’ operation.
Restart of manila-share service is needed for the configuration changes to take effect.