[Gluster-users] GlusterFS over multiples HDD

[Gilberto Nunes]

Well... LVM doesn't do the job that I need...
But I found this article https://www.gonscak.sk/?p=201 which makes the
way....

Thanks for all the help and comments about this.... Cheers.

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Em qui., 30 de jul. de 2020 às 10:25, Gilberto Nunes <
gilberto.nunes32 at gmail.com> escreveu:

> But I will give it a try in the lvm mirroring process.... Thanks
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> Gilberto Nunes Ferreira
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> Em qui., 30 de jul. de 2020 às 10:23, Gilberto Nunes <
> gilberto.nunes32 at gmail.com> escreveu:
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>> Well, actually I am not concerned ONLY about mirroring the data, but with
>> reliability on it.
>> Here during my lab tests I notice if I pull off a disk and then power on
>> the server, the LVM crashes...
>> On the other hand, with ZFS even in degraded state the system booted
>> normally.
>> The same happens with mdadm. That's the point.
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>> Gilberto Nunes Ferreira
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>> Em qui., 30 de jul. de 2020 às 10:18, Alvin Starr <alvin at netvel.net>
>> escreveu:
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>>> LVM supports mirroring or raid1.
>>> So to create a raid1 you would do something like "lvcreate -n raidvol
>>> -L 1T --mirrors 1  /dev/bigvg"
>>> You can add a mirror to an existing logical volume using lvconvert  with
>>> something like "lvconvert --mirrors +1 bigvg/unmirroredlv"
>>>
>>> But other than simple mirroring you will need mdadm.
>>>
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>>>
>>> On 7/30/20 8:39 AM, Gilberto Nunes wrote:
>>>
>>> Doing some research and the chvg command, which is responsable for
>>> create hotspare disks in LVM is available only in AIX!
>>> I have a Debian Buster box and there is no such command chvg. Correct me
>>> if I am wrong....
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>>> Gilberto Nunes Ferreira
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>>> Em qui., 30 de jul. de 2020 às 02:05, Strahil Nikolov <
>>> hunter86_bg at yahoo.com> escreveu:
>>>
>>>> LVM allows creating/converting striped/mirrored LVs without any dowtime
>>>> and it's using the md module.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Strahil Nikolov
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>>>> На 28 юли 2020 г. 22:43:39 GMT+03:00, Gilberto Nunes <
>>>> gilberto.nunes32 at gmail.com> написа:
>>>> >Hi there....
>>>> >
>>>> >'till now, I am using glusterfs over XFS and so far so good.
>>>> >Using LVM too....
>>>> >Unfortunately, there is no way with XFS to merge two or more HDD, in
>>>> >order
>>>> >to use more than one HDD, like RAID1 or RAID5.
>>>> >My primary goal is to use two server with GlusterFS on top of multiples
>>>> >HDDs for qemu images.
>>>> >I have think about BTRFS or mdadm.
>>>> >Anybody has some experience on this?
>>>> >
>>>> >Thanks a lot
>>>> >
>>>> >---
>>>> >Gilberto Nunes Ferreira
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