[Gluster-users] multiple volumes on same brick?

[Thibault Godouet]

You could perhaps use LVM on your RAID 6, and create two Logical Volumes,
one per brick?
On 22 Sep 2015 5:17 am, "Atin Mukherjee" <amukherj at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 09/22/2015 02:07 AM, Gluster Admin wrote:
> > Gluster users,
> >
> > We have a multiple node setup where each server has a single XFS brick
> > (underlying storage is hardware battery backed raid6).  Are there any
> > issues creating multiple gluster volumes using the same underlying
> > bricks from a performance or management standpoint?
> This is not possible in Gluster. A brick (partition) is considered to be
> the smallest unit of the break down of a volume.
>
> Thanks,
> Atin
> >
> > or would it be better to setup many smaller bricks via RAID1 to support
> > multiple volumes.
> >
> >
> > Current setup:
> >
> > NODE:/brick1    (raid6 8 disk per brick)
> >
> > Smaller Brick setup:
> >
> > NODE:/brick1 /brick2 /brick3 /brick4  (raid1 2 disk per brick)
> >
> >
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