Jeffery - You can subscribe to the mailing list here - http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users , welcome to the Gluster community! It sounds like you are looking at Gluster Storage Platform. Storage Platform uses 4GB for the OS install. The rest of the space on the server is used for storing your data. We strongly suggest users use hardware RAID to protect against drive failure, otherwise the node fails, yes. For more information on the differences between Gluster Storage Platform and Gluster File System please see this link - http://gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/Main_Page . Storage Platform is a great idea if you are planning on getting a support subscription, most organizations that run without support use Gluster File System. Thanks, Craig -- Craig Carl Sales Engineer; Gluster, Inc. Cell - ( 408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Office - ( 408) 770-1884 Gtalk - craig.carl at gmail.com Twitter - @gluster Installing Gluster Storage Platform, the movie! From: "Jeffrey Negro" <jnegro at billtrust.com> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:28:07 PM Subject: Boot drive usage I'm still in the process of learning about Gluster and I had a question about the boot drives on nodes. I see in the instructions that a drive is selected for boot during node installation. Does this mean that it will waste the entire drive for booting, or does the remainder get used for node storage? and is there any redundancy of the boot drive data on the node, or will the node go down if the boot disk dies? Thank you again in advance Jeffrey P.S. - how do I get myself permanently on the mailing list so I stop getting that message about being a non-member? _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
