Gluster(HPC) is a completely different project than GlusterFS. GlusterHPC deals with OS replication across systems for which LVM/RAID support is not yet present. GlusterFS has absolutely on issues with underlying LVM/RAID avati On 5/3/07, Majied Najjar <majied.najjar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ha! I just realized. That is the Gluster FAQ, not the GlusterFS FAQ. So LVM/RAID is not recommended for the Platform, which is different from the Filesystem. Majied On Thu, 3 May 2007 10:31:35 -0400 Majied Najjar <majied.najjar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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