[Gluster-users] Multiple volumes on one server

Vikas Gorur vikas at gluster.com
Fri Oct 9 00:46:45 UTC 2009


Thomas Wakefield wrote:
> I want to have two or more servers each serving out 40TB of disk space 
> (80TB+ of total space).  And i am wondering the best way to configure 
> this amount of disk.
>
> Is it possible to have multiple volumes mounted on single gluster 
> server,  but for the client to see the volumes as one mount point?  I 
> couldn't find an answer in the documentation.  Even with XFS, i am 
> worried about having a single 40TB volume.  So i was thinking either 2 
> or 4 volumes to combine together to get to 40TB.
You can combine multiple volumes using the distribute translator and
the clients will see them as a single mountpoint.

Vikas




More information about the Gluster-users mailing list