That is correct. I have 2 servers set up that way and it works well. Larry Bates vitalEsafe, Inc. Sent from my iPhone, please forgive my typos ;-) On Apr 29, 2012, at 2:00 PM, gluster-users-request at gluster.org wrote: > Send Gluster-users mailing list submissions to > gluster-users at gluster.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > gluster-users-request at gluster.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > gluster-users-owner at gluster.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Gluster-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Bricks suggestions (Gandalf Corvotempesta) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:25:30 +0200 > From: Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Bricks suggestions > To: Gluster-users at gluster.org > Message-ID: > <CAJH6TXjBaPiHzSTsvQxrLa4xCnVqtsAP=OP4hy7EJSqqnpQDew at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 2012/4/27 Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> >> >> So, what do you suggest? A simple RAID10? >> >> I have servers with 8 SATA disk, what do you suggest to 'merge' these disks to a bigger volume? >> >> I think that having "du" output wrong, is not a good solution. >> >> I'm also considering no raid at all. > For example, with 2 server and 8 SATA disk each, I can create a single XFS > filesystem for every disk and then creating a replicated bricks for each. > > For example: > > server1:brick1 => server2:brick1 > server1:brick2 => server2:brick2 > > and so on. > After that, I can use these bricks to create a distributed volume. > In case of a disk failure, I have to heal only on disk at time and not the > whole volume, right? >
