I have tried this and unfortunately NFS doesn't support extended attributes in the way that gluster needs them, which prevents brick creation.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:49 AM, technocrat 9000 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I'm interested in using GlusterFS for my simple home NAS system. > > I'm primarily interested in being able to virtualise a bunch of different > sized harddrives into one large filesystem (whilst retaining the ability to > read data off any individual harddrive.) > > At the moment, the hardware I have is: > > - PC with several harddrives. > - Synology NAS box with several hardrives. > > I'd like to (1) run the PC as a storage server, and have its own > harddrives as one brick, and (2) the Synology NAS as a second brick. (3) > I'd like to mirror the two bricks for redundancy. > > (1) is the normal setup for GlusterFS, but is (2) actually possible? > > If I mount the Synology NAS as "/export/NAS/", for example, can I use it > as a brick? Is the fact that it's an NFS share transparent to Gluster? Or > does Gluster care about the underlying hardware/filesystem used? > > Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
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