[Gluster-users] Use NFS as bricks?

[Prashanth Pai]

NFS does not have xattrs as far as I know. In theory, GlusterFS can support any POSIX filesystem that has support for extended attributes.

Regards,
 -Prashanth Pai

----- Original Message -----
From: "technocrat 9000" <technocrat9000 at gmail.com>
To: gluster-users at gluster.org
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 3:19:00 PM
Subject: [Gluster-users] Use NFS as bricks?

Hi, I'm interested in using GlusterFS for my simple home NAS system. 

I'm primarily interested in being able to virtualise a bunch of different sized harddrives into one large filesystem (whilst retaining the ability to read data off any individual harddrive.) 

At the moment, the hardware I have is: 

- PC with several harddrives. 
- Synology NAS box with several hardrives. 

I'd like to (1) run the PC as a storage server, and have its own harddrives as one brick, and (2) the Synology NAS as a second brick. (3) I'd like to mirror the two bricks for redundancy. 

(1) is the normal setup for GlusterFS, but is (2) actually possible? 

If I mount the Synology NAS as "/export/NAS/", for example, can I use it as a brick? Is the fact that it's an NFS share transparent to Gluster? Or does Gluster care about the underlying hardware/filesystem used? 

Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks! 

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