[Gluster-devel] LVM

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

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Hi Onyx,
GlusterFS volumes are file based. LVM requires block based
store. You cannot have LVM over GlusterFS. I am assuming
you are asking about GlusterFS over LVM. You can use LVM and
its snapshotting ability underneath the GlusterFS posix volume.
It will work transparently.

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Onyx wrote:
> Has anyone ever tested LVM on top of a glusterfs volume? Would this even 
> be possible?
> I'm interested because of the snapshot feature of LVM.
> 
> Thanks!
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