Re: [Gluster-users] Volume Creation - Best Practices

2018-08-25 Thread Jim Kinney
I use single disks as a physical volume. Each gluster host is identical. As more space is needed for a mount point, a set of disks is added to the logical volume of each host. As my primary need is HA, all of my host nodes are simply replicates. Prior to this config I had a physical raid6

Re: [Gluster-users] Volume Creation - Best Practices

2018-08-24 Thread Brian Andrus
You can do that, but you could run into issues with the 'shared' remaining space. Any one of the volumes could eat up the space you planned on using in another volume. Not a huge issue, but could bite you. I prefer to use ZFS for the flexibility. I create a RAIDZ pool and then separate zfs

Re: [Gluster-users] Volume Creation - Best Practices

2018-08-24 Thread Alex K
Hi, On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 21:45 Mark Connor wrote: > Wondering if there is a best practice for volume creation. I don't see > this information in the documentation. For example. > I have a 10 node distribute-replicate setup with one large xfs filesystem > mounted on each node. > > Is it OK for

[Gluster-users] Volume Creation - Best Practices

2018-08-24 Thread Mark Connor
Wondering if there is a best practice for volume creation. I don't see this information in the documentation. For example. I have a 10 node distribute-replicate setup with one large xfs filesystem mounted on each node. Is it OK for me to have just one xfs filesystem mounted and use subdirectories