We use raw disks with our setup. Gluster takes care of the replication part, so RAID would be useless for us. Performance wise, you are better off just adding a new brick and let gluster do the rest. Best regards, Gabriel On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Uwe Kastens <kisteorg at googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I know, that there is no general answer to this question :) > > Is it better to use HW Raid or LVM as gluster backend or raw disks? > > Regards > > Uwe > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > >