[Gluster-users] Can I setup multiple volume from single GlusterFS pool?

James purpleidea at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 04:09:37 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 12:07 +0800, Xiao Bin XB Zhang wrote:
> thanks James, however when I check gluster volume create command,
> 
> I didn't find any command line options that let me specify how much volumes
> I can use,
> 
> so if I have 6 nodes, each have a raw disk, and if I want to create 2
> volumes,
> 
> I can either use 4 nodes to create gluster pool, then create the volume,
> and use another 2 nodes to create gluster pool, then create another volume,
> 
> Is any way that I can create 2 volumes by using all my 6 nodes?
> 
> Can you help give me command or point me some where the link that I can
> study?

Either read the GlusterFS docs at gluster.org and/or have a look at
Puppet-Gluster: https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster which
should get a simple cluster running for you. Then you can break it, see
how it works, etc...

Cheers

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Xiaobin Zhang(张小斌)
> Cloud Solutions and OpenStack Development
> IBM China System and Technology Lab, Beijing
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> 
> 
> From:	James <purpleidea at gmail.com>
> To:	Xiao Bin XB Zhang/China/IBM at IBMCN,
> Cc:	gluster-users at gluster.org
> Date:	11/19/2013 12:02 PM
> Subject:	Re: [Gluster-users] Can I setup multiple volume from single
>             GlusterFS pool?
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 11:46 +0800, Xiao Bin XB Zhang wrote:
> > Is it possible for me to setup such 3 different volumes within single
> > GlusterFS pool?
> 
> Yes of course.
> 
> Cheers,
> James
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