Your gluster brick must be a directory, not a block device. The filesystem that directory is located on must supported xattr. David On 7/19/12 1:16 PM, Sallee, Stephen (Jake) wrote: > > I am new to gluster so please be a bit patient with me. > > I am trying to setup a gluster volume with the bricks being /dev/sdb1 > (or /dev/sdb, I have tried both) ... etc. however I get an error > message and the operation fails. I do not have the error message > (sorry!) the only brick I have available for testing is tied up at the > moment so I cant rerun the test to get the exact error. If I can I > will post it later. > > However if I mount the partition I am able to create the volume no > problem. I have read the admin guide several times but cannot find > any reference to using a block device only a mounted device. > > Is it even possible, or am I crazy for even trying? > > Jake Sallee > > Godfather of Bandwidth > > System Engineer > > University of Mary Hardin-Baylor > > 900 College St. > > Belton TX. 76513 > > Fone: 254-295-4658 > > Phax: 254-295-4221 > > HTTP://WWW.UMHB.EDU > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120719/b54da7e2/attachment.htm>
