[Gluster-devel] LVM MD GlusterFS
Majied Najjar
majied.najjar at nationalnet.com
Thu May 3 14:31:35 UTC 2007
The FAQ in the GlusterFS wiki says as much.
http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Gluster_FAQ
"Distributions should be installed without LVM/Software Raid. Support for LVM/SW Raid is being added currently."
I can confirm that software RAID plays nice enough. However, I have not tested with LVM.
Majied
On Thu, 3 May 2007 12:17:47 +0530
"Krishna Srinivas" <krishna at zresearch.com> wrote:
> Hi Danson
>
> GlusterFS works over other filesystems, so you can have LVM/RAID etc
> underneath. Which part of FAQ says that lvm/raid doesnt work with glusterfs?
>
> Krishna
>
> On 5/3/07, Danson Michael Joseph <danson.joseph at baobabelectric.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > What is meant by the note in the FAQ that glusterFS doesn't work with
> > LVM and md? When I compiled and ran glusterFS, I had software raid5 on
> > my disks with lvm on top of the raid. I then exported a directory in
> > one of the reiserfs formatted lvm partitions and it seemed to work
> > fine. Is this what is not supposed to work, or is it something else?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Danson Joseph
> >
> >
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