Introduction to Kadalu Storage
Kadalu Storage is a modern opinionated distributed filesystem focused on ease of use, scale, and stability.
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Storage Pool is a logical entity that groups the Volumes and provides isolation from other Pools available.
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Storage Volume exposes the storage from all nodes and provides a single Unified namespace to the applications.
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Storage Nodes are associated with the Kadalu Storage pool. One Storage node can’t be part of two Storage pools.
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Storage Unit is a directory or device in a node that will then be combined with other directories/devices from same or different nodes to provide single unified namespace.
First, create a Storage Pool and then start adding nodes to the Pool. The following example shows three nodes added to the Storage Pool.
$ kadalu pool create DEV
Pool created successfully.
ID: 4e67989e-0c24-44ac-b0a7-81aa5cb4ec6b
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$ kadalu node add DEV/server1.example.com
Node server1.example.com added to DEV successfully
ID: 3befd57b-1d31-4664-94e9-f87bf7ce90f9
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$ kadalu node add DEV/server2.example.com
Node server2.example.com added to DEV successfully
ID: e9a4ed06-f3d8-4dcc-aaaf-ae821846167a
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$ kadalu node add DEV/server3.example.com
Node server3.example.com added to DEV successfully
ID: 9abf4512-029a-4ae1-85d6-400bf7e8e30cPrepare the mounted directory to use as a Storage unit while creating the Volume. Any filesystem that supports xattrs can be used as a Storage Unit of a Kadalu Volume. The following example demonstrates using a directory from each server and creating a Mirrored Kadalu Volume using them.
[root@server1 ~]# mkdir -p /exports/vol1
[root@server2 ~]# mkdir -p /exports/vol1
[root@server3 ~]# mkdir -p /exports/vol1[root@server1 ~]# kadalu volume create DEV/vol1 \
--allow-from-root-partition \
mirror server1.example.com:/exports/vol1/s1 \
server2.example.com:/exports/vol1/s2 \
server3.example.com:/exports/vol1/s3Mirrored or Replicate volume copies a file to all three storage units whenever a file is created from the Mount point. Mount Kadalu Volume in any node using the following command. Note that all the Storage servers should be accessible from the node where the Volume is mounted.
[root@client ~]# mkdir /mnt/vol1
[root@client ~]# mount -t kadalu server1.example.com:/DEV/vol1 /mnt/vol1