Re: [ovirt-users] gluster host without raid?

2014-08-19 Thread Jorick Astrego
Hi Tibor, It all depends on if you can risk the chance of downtime. Buying a couple larger HDD's is probably cheaper than spending a couple of hours of your time on it when things break. You could have one node down permanently, replace it completly and heal the volume (http://gluster.org/comm

Re: [ovirt-users] gluster host without raid?

2014-08-19 Thread Punit Dambiwal
Hi Tibor, In this if your host OS disk will crash your brick data also inaccessible..better to have the RAID1 for OS... Thanks, Punit On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Demeter Tibor wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to make a four-node gluster based cluster, but I don't have > enought hdd. I just

[ovirt-users] gluster host without raid?

2014-08-18 Thread Demeter Tibor
Hi, I would like to make a four-node gluster based cluster, but I don't have enought hdd. I just wondering, on the hosts (not on the portal) I won't use raid for the main system (os). I have disks only for bricks. I will give one disk for the os, and one disk for gluster brick per server. I