[Gluster-users] thoughts on disk usage (df) output

[Keith Freedman]

At 12:01 AM 8/6/2008, Krishna Srinivas wrote:
>Keith,
>
> > It's not very full, so my concern is..  might gluster
> > overfill  /home/extra because it thinks it has more space than it
> > does, or might it think the disk is full when it's not and there's
> > still room to write files (if they're being written in /home/extra).
>
>Yes this can happen as glusterfs wont have any idea that another
>disk partition has been mounted in one of the sub directories.
>
>You could use LVM and combine the two disks.
>
>Regards
>Krishna


Thanks for your response.  Yes, I will put them on LVM, the problem 
is, I can't really do that on these existing machines because I dont 
have anywhere to move the data while I create the LVM 
volumes.  However, I'll just make sure I resolve the issue before 
disk space becomes a problem.

Keith