The FAQ in the GlusterFS wiki says as much. http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Gluster_FAQ "Distributions should be installed without LVM/Software Raid. Support for LVM/SW Raid is being added currently." I can confirm that software RAID plays nice enough. However, I have not tested with LVM. Majied On Thu, 3 May 2007 12:17:47 +0530 "Krishna Srinivas" <krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Danson > > GlusterFS works over other filesystems, so you can have LVM/RAID etc > underneath. Which part of FAQ says that lvm/raid doesnt work with glusterfs? > > Krishna > > On 5/3/07, Danson Michael Joseph <danson.joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > What is meant by the note in the FAQ that glusterFS doesn't work with > > LVM and md? When I compiled and ran glusterFS, I had software raid5 on > > my disks with lvm on top of the raid. I then exported a directory in > > one of the reiserfs formatted lvm partitions and it seemed to work > > fine. Is this what is not supposed to work, or is it something else? > > > > Regards, > > Danson Joseph > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-devel mailing list > > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
