[Gluster-users] gluster volume create failure

[John Smith]

Hrm.


/exports/llvm2volname as the mountpoint, with 'brick' as the subdir
(resulting in /exports/llvmvolname/brick) seems nice ...

Guess ill go and do that. Maybe nice for the docs, too ?
;)


- John

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:56 PM, John Smith <lbalbalba at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Thanks. Is there a preferred naming convention to go along with it ?
> Doing /exports/brick1/brick 1 seems a bit silly. Also, the /export
> mountpoint you suggest makes things a little ugly too, as it will
> results in /etxport1,  /export2, etc.
>
> Any ideas >?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> John Smith.
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Anand Avati <anand.avati at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The quick start guide needs to be updated. The brick directory should
>> ideally be a sub-directory of a mount point (and not a mount point directory
>> itself) for ease of administration. We recently added code to warn about
>> this (and looks like the code check exposed a documentation bug which you
>> just shared!)
>>
>> Avati
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:22 AM, John Smith <lbalbalba at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> Im trying to follow this guide to set up a simple cluster:
>>> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/QuickStart
>>>
>>> But when I issue this command :
>>> gluster volume create glustervol01 replica 2
>>> 192.168.126.128:/export/brick1 192.168.126.129:/export/brick1
>>>
>>> I get the following eror:
>>> volume create: glustervol01: failed: The brick
>>> 192.168.126.129:/export/brick1 is a mount point. Please create a
>>> sub-directory under the mount point and use that as the brick
>>> directory. Or use 'force' at the end of the command if you want to
>>> override this behavior.
>>>
>>> Am I doing something wrong ? The guide tells you to 'mkdir -p
>>> /export/brick1', and add '/dev/glusterfsvol/glusterfslv1
>>> /export/brick1 xfs defaults 1 2' to /etc/fstab. So yeah,
>>> /exports/brick is a mount point. You just created it. I dont get it...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> - John Smith
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>>