You could perhaps use LVM on your RAID 6, and create two Logical Volumes, one per brick?
On 22 Sep 2015 5:17 am, "Atin Mukherjee" <amukherj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 09/22/2015 02:07 AM, Gluster Admin wrote:
> Gluster users,
>
> We have a multiple node setup where each server has a single XFS brick
> (underlying storage is hardware battery backed raid6). Are there any
> issues creating multiple gluster volumes using the same underlying
> bricks from a performance or management standpoint?
This is not possible in Gluster. A brick (partition) is considered to be
the smallest unit of the break down of a volume.
Thanks,
Atin
>
> or would it be better to setup many smaller bricks via RAID1 to support
> multiple volumes.
>
>
> Current setup:
>
> NODE:/brick1 (raid6 8 disk per brick)
>
> Smaller Brick setup:
>
> NODE:/brick1 /brick2 /brick3 /brick4 (raid1 2 disk per brick)
>
>
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