[Gluster-devel] configuration question

[Fabrice Charlier]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the answer!

I would like to setup my storage cluster with actual partition (2TB) and 
after setup the same boxes with one big 10TB partition on each box. My 
goal is to compare the two solutions in terms of performance.

I have a supplementary question: Is it possible to configure glusterfs 
with more than one partition in a brick? If yes, what's the syntax to use?

Thanks,

Fabrice

Daniel van Ham Colchete wrote:
> On 8/8/07, *Fabrice Charlier* <fabrice.charlier at uclouvain.be 
> <mailto:fabrice.charlier at uclouvain.be>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I need some advices for configuration of our brand new storage boxes
>     with glusterfs.
>     We have 2 boxes with each 10TB of disk space. This disk space is
>     separated in 2TB partitions by autocarving on
>     hardware controller. I want to aggregate all that disk space with
>     glusterfs. I don't want to have HA.
>     I know that it's possible.  But I would like to know what's the "good
>     practice" to implement this configuration.
>
>     Thanks in advance,
>
>     Fabrice
>
>
>
> Fabrice,
>
> I installed a small cluster last week and I also had problems creating 
> partitions with disks bigger than 2TB. This howto helped-me a lot: 
> http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/larger_2TB.html 
> <http://www.unixgods.org/%7Etilo/larger_2TB.html>. In a few words, use 
> parted to make the partitions and a different partition label called 
> gpt. Maybe you will need to recompile your kernel.
>
> If you only want to aggregate the space together and have a 20TB 
> "disk" for you clients, them try reading 
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_Multi-server_Config_Example.
>
> If you also want to do HA, having a copy of every file on both 
> servers, then you will need AFR, read 
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_Translators#AFR_Example_in_Clustered_Mode.
>
> If you are just starting with GlusterFS, I think you should also read 
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Getting_Started_with_GlusterFS.
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel Colchete


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