[Gluster-users] Use NFS as bricks?

[Benjamin Kingston]

I have tried this and unfortunately NFS doesn't support extended attributes
in the way that gluster needs them, which prevents brick creation.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:49 AM, technocrat 9000 <technocrat9000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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