[Gluster-users] gluster volume create failure

[John Smith]

Hi,

I realize there is no 'hard' reason to do it a certain way, but my
guess is that people are gonna do pretty much what the docs say, at
least for there 1st cluster.

I really like this approach

doing /exports/brick1 as mountpoint, and the subdir as the disk name
or llvm2 volume (which then can be diff on each host)
host1 /exports/brick1/sda1 host2 /exports/brick1/sdf5
for the same brick
then the naming convention tells you immediatly whicj phisical disks
or llvm volumes are part of a brick.


Thanks,


Regards,


John Smith



On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Anand Avati <anand.avati at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no hard rule/convention. Ideally you would want the brick directory
> name to match the volume name, rather than something as isolated as
> "brick1".
>
> For eg, if you have a volume called 'music', the brick name could be
> /export/LVM/music and similarly share the same LVM for video with a brick
> called /export/LVM/video.
>
> Avati
>
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:56 AM, 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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