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(Recommended) Creating an SFS Turbo Subdirectory Using a Dynamic PV

When an SFS Turbo volume is mounted to a workload container, the root directory is mounted to the container by default. However, the minimum capacity of an SFS Turbo volume is 500 GiB, which exceeds the capacity required by most workloads, leading to a waste of storage resources. CCE enables efficient utilization of storage capacity by creating SFS Turbo subdirectories dynamically when you create a PVC. This allows multiple workloads to share the SFS Turbo file system.

Prerequisites

  • You have created a cluster and installed the CCE Container Storage (Everest) add-on of v2.3.23 or later in the cluster.
  • To create a cluster using commands, ensure kubectl is used. For details, see Accessing a Cluster Using kubectl.
  • You have created an available SFS Turbo file system, and the SFS Turbo file system and the cluster are in the same VPC.

Dynamically Creating an SFS Turbo Subdirectory

CCE allows you to create SFS Turbo subdirectory PVCs via the console or kubectl based on the configured StorageClasses. After PVC creation, CCE dynamically allocates storage resources and mounts the PVCs to the specified workloads. To do so, perform the following operations.

  1. Log in to the CCE console and click the cluster name to access the cluster console.
  2. Choose Storage in the navigation pane. In the right pane, click the PVCs tab. Click Create PVC in the upper right corner. In the dialog box displayed, configure PVC parameters.

    Parameter

    Description

    PVC Type

    In this example, select SFS Turbo.

    PVC Name

    Enter the PVC name, which must be unique in a namespace.

    Creation Method

    Select New subdirectory.

    Storage Classes

    Choose csi-sfsturbo. You can customize a StorageClass and configure its reclaim policy and binding mode. For details, see Through the Console.

    Access Mode

    SFS Turbo volumes support only ReadWriteMany, indicating that a storage volume can be mounted to multiple nodes in read/write mode. For details, see Volume Access Modes.

    SFS Turbo

    Click Select SFS Turbo. On the displayed page, select the SFS Turbo file system that meets your requirements and click OK.

    Subdirectory

    Enter the absolute path of a subdirectory, for example, /a/b.

    Subdirectory Reclaim Policy

    Determine whether to retain subdirectories when a PVC is deleted.

    • Retain: When a PVC is deleted, the PV is deleted, but its associated subdirectories are retained.
    • Delete: When a PVC is deleted, the PV and its associated subdirectories are also deleted.
      NOTE:

      When a subdirectory is deleted, only the absolute path of the subdirectory specified in the PVC is deleted. The parent directory is retained.

  3. Click Create to create a PVC and a PV.

    You can choose Storage in the navigation pane and view the created PVC and PV on the PVCs and PVs tab pages, respectively.

  1. Use kubectl to access the cluster.
  2. Create the pvc-sfsturbo-subpath.yaml file. 

    apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: pvc-sfsturbo-subpath    # PVC name
  namespace: default
  annotations:
    everest.io/volume-as: absolute-path                # An SFS Turbo subdirectory is used.
    everest.io/sfsturbo-share-id: <sfsturbo_id>        # SFS Turbo ID
    everest.io/path: /a                                # Subdirectory that is automatically created, which must be an absolute path
    everest.io/reclaim-policy: retain-volume-only      # When a PVC is deleted, the PV is deleted, but its associated subdirectories are retained.
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany      # ReadWriteMany must be selected for SFS Turbo.
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 10Gi      # For SFS Turbo subdirectory PVCs, this configuration is only used for verification and must not be empty or 0.
  storageClassName: csi-sfsturbo     # StorageClass name of the SFS Turbo file system
    Table 1 Key parameters

    Parameter

    Mandatory

    Description

    everest.io/volume-as

    Yes

    The value is fixed at absolute-path, indicating that a dynamically created SFS Turbo subdirectory is used.

    everest.io/sfsturbo-share-id

    Yes

    SFS Turbo ID

    How to obtain: Log in to the CCE console, choose Service List > Storage > Scalable File Service, and select SFS Turbo. In the list, click the name of the target SFS Turbo file system. On the details page, copy the content following ID.

    everest.io/path

    Yes

    Subdirectory that is automatically created, which must be an absolute path.

    everest.io/reclaim-policy

    Yes

    Whether to retain subdirectories when deleting a PVC. This parameter must be used with PV Reclaim Policy. This parameter is available only when the PV reclaim policy is Delete. Options:

    • retain-volume-only: When a PVC is deleted, the PV is deleted, but its associated subdirectories are retained.
    • delete: When a PVC is deleted, the PV and its associated subdirectories are also deleted.
      NOTE:

      When a subdirectory is deleted, only the absolute path of the subdirectory specified in the PVC is deleted. The parent directory is retained.

    storage

    Yes

    Requested capacity in the PVC, in Gi.

    This parameter is only used for verifying SFS Turbo subdirectory PVCs. The value cannot be empty or 0, and can be fixed at 10 because any value you set does not take effect.

  3. Run the following command to create a PVC: 

    kubectl apply -f pvc-sfsturbo-subpath.yaml

Helpful Links

If a storage volume fails to mount to a workload, rectify the fault by referring to What Should I Do If a Storage Volume Cannot Be Mounted or the Mounting Times Out?

Parent Topic: SFS Turbo