Am 23.09.2013 um 03:52 schrieb James <purpleidea at gmail.com>: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Marjan Grabowski > <mailinglists at knaggit.de> wrote: >> Hi at all! >> >> i'm trying to use glusterfs for the first time and have the following problem: >> I want to have two nodes. >> On node1 I have a raid1-sytem running in /raid/storage >> Both nodes see the other and now I try to create a volume. >> While I create the first volume on a fresh system (node1) for the first time, gluster said: >> volume create: glustervolume: failed: /raid/storage/ or a prefix of it is already part of a volume > Is the /raid/storage raid1 mounted on both gluster nodes ? > If so then yes. > gluster does the "raid-ing" of the data... you shouldn't be doing it > yourself underneath gluster :P No, the RAID running olny on node1. Node2 running a one partition external HDD. Funnily enough the hint from Mohit Anchlia helps. I tried this from times to times and now it works. > >> How can it be? It is possible, that the mdadm-raid1-sytem is the reason? >> >> >> Regards, >> Tito >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users Thanks for your help!