You might ask why do I need an extra block device?
Most of the time you do not need it but special cases might occur and I’ll give an example: we want to test GlusterFS with distributed/replicated bricks using plain block devices inside containers.
1st make sure you have installed lxc
yum install lxc lxc-templates
Setup the container
lxc-create --template=centos --name=gluster01 --bdev=lvm --vgname=cached_raid1 --fssize=4G
Create 2 new extra block devices
lvcreate -V 10G --thin -n gluster01_brick1 raid_10/thin_pool_secondary
lvcreate -V 10G --thin -n gluster01_brick2 raid_10/thin_pool_secondary
Grab minor and major of the new block device
ls -al /dev/mapper/raid_10-gluster01_brick1
ls -al /dev/mapper/raid_10-gluster01_brick2
Configure the container with the new block device
vi /var/lib/lxc/gluster01/config
add
# Mounting extra disk
lxc.aa_profile = lxc-container-default-with-mounting
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = b 253:37 rwm # 1st brick
lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = b 253:38 rwm # 2nd brick
lxc.autodev = 1
lxc.hook.autodev = /var/lib/lxc/gluster01/autodev_block.sh
Create /var/lib/lxc/gluster01/autodev_block.sh
with the following content
#!/bin/bash
cd ${LXC_ROOTFS_MOUNT}/dev
mknod -m 666 sdb b 253 37
mknod -m 666 sdc b 253 38
then make it executable
chmod +x /var/lib/lxc/gluster01/autodev_block.sh
Start the container and check everything
lxc-start --name=gluster01
and run inside the container:
fdisk -l
You should see 2 disks of 10GB.
