[Gluster-users] Problem wit glusterfs-server 3.4

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Am 23.09.2013 um 03:52 schrieb James <purpleidea at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Marjan Grabowski
> <mailinglists at knaggit.de> wrote:
>> Hi at all!
>> 
>> i'm trying to use glusterfs for the first time and have the following problem:
>> I want to have two nodes.
>> On node1 I have a raid1-sytem running in /raid/storage
>> Both nodes see the other and now I try to create a volume.
>> While I create the first volume on a fresh system (node1) for the first time, gluster said:
>> volume create: glustervolume: failed: /raid/storage/ or a prefix of it is already part of a volume
> Is the /raid/storage raid1 mounted on both gluster nodes ?
> If so then yes.
> gluster does the "raid-ing" of the data... you shouldn't be doing it
> yourself underneath gluster :P

No, the RAID running olny on node1. Node2 running a one partition external HDD. Funnily enough the hint from Mohit Anchlia helps. I tried this from times to times and now it works. 

> 
>> How can it be? It is possible, that the mdadm-raid1-sytem is the reason?
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Tito
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Thanks for your help!