On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From wiki: > If '/mnt/sda1' is your export disk, it is nice if you export > '/mnt/sda1/export/' through glusterfs, instead of exporting /mnt/sda1 > itself > > Question: > Why? > I had put that thinking of the manageability issues. That way, you can have multiple directories from the same disk exported. I had faced issues at a customer place when I had to change some settings (it was a stripe volume). Later I had to put a unify+stripe using switch scheduler there, and I had to move the whole of /mnt/sda1/* to /mnt/sda1/old/ and then i had to create new export directories. Hence the advice. Regards, -- Amar Tumballi Gluster/GlusterFS Hacker [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org] http://www.zresearch.com - Commoditizing Super Storage!
