[Gluster-users] Bricks suggestions

[Gandalf Corvotempesta]

2012/4/19 Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>
>
> As for partitioning: note that you can create separate bricks on the same
> disk.  e.g. if the RAID arrays are mounted on server1:/data, server2:/data
> etc then you can create your web volume out of
>
>  server1:/data/web server2:/data/web ...etc
>
> and your mail volume out of
>
>  server1:/data/mail server2:/data/mail ...etc
>
> This doesn't gain you any performance, but gives you a little more
> flexibility and manageability (e.g. you can more easily look at I/O usage
> patterns separately for the two volumes, or migrate your web volume onto
> other bricks without moving your mail volume)
>
>
just to clarify:
are bricks like server1:/data/mail and server1:/data/web standard directory
on the server?
Can I create a brick from a single directory and not from the whole
mountpoint?
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