[Gluster-users] Bricks suggestions

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:48:49PM +0200, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
>    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?

Yes.

Of course, if two bricks are on the same mountpoint, then the output of "df"
will see the same amount of free space on both bricks. That is, adding
together all the "df" output from the volumes which contain these bricks
will be more than the actual free space available.