[Gluster-users] Bricks suggestions

[Larry Bates]

That is correct.  I have 2 servers set up that way and it works well.

Larry Bates
vitalEsafe, Inc.

Sent from my iPhone, 
please forgive my typos ;-)

On Apr 29, 2012, at 2:00 PM, gluster-users-request at gluster.org wrote:

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> 2012/4/27 Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com>
>> 
>> So, what do you suggest? A simple RAID10?
>> 
>> I have servers with 8 SATA disk, what do you suggest to 'merge' these disks to a bigger volume?
>> 
>> I think that having "du" output wrong, is not a good solution.
>> 
>> I'm also considering no raid at all.
> For example, with 2 server and 8 SATA disk each, I can create a single XFS
> filesystem for every disk and then creating a replicated bricks for each.
> 
> For example:
> 
> server1:brick1 => server2:brick1
> server1:brick2 => server2:brick2
> 
> and so on.
> After that, I can use these bricks to create a distributed volume.
> In case of a disk failure, I have to heal only on disk at time and not the
> whole volume, right?
>