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<p>I apologize if this has been answered before, I haven't found a
satisfying explanation.<br>
</p>
I've just set up a new gluster. We have 4 servers and each has 3
RAIDS with separate raid controller. I wanted to create one giant
data space and tried:<br>
<blockquote><tt>$ gluster volume create Data replica 2 transport tcp
host1:/brick1/data host1:/brick2/data host1:/brick3/data [...]
host4:/brick3/data<br>
</tt></blockquote>
This gave me the error message:<tt><br>
</tt>
<blockquote><tt>volume create: MRIData: failed: Multiple bricks of a
replicate volume are present on the same server. This setup is
not optimal. Use 'force' at the end of the command if you want
to override this behavior.<br>
</tt></blockquote>
The 'force' option allowed me to create a volume and everything
seems to work. The question is, whys is this not optimal ? What are
the potential pitfalls ? I don't want to find myself with an
unusable data space.<br>
Also, does it make a difference the order in which I specify the
bricks ?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
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