Re: [Gluster-devel] LVM MD GlusterFS

[Majied Najjar]

Ha!

I just realized.

That is the Gluster FAQ, not the GlusterFS FAQ.

So LVM/RAID is not recommended for the Platform, which is different from the 
Filesystem.

Majied

On Thu, 3 May 2007 10:31:35 -0400
Majied Najjar <address@hidden> wrote:

> The FAQ in the GlusterFS wiki says as much.
> 
> http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Gluster_FAQ
> 
> "Distributions should be installed without LVM/Software Raid. Support for 
> LVM/SW Raid is being added currently."
> 
> I can confirm that software RAID plays nice enough.  However, I have not 
> tested with LVM.
> 
> Majied
> 
> On Thu, 3 May 2007 12:17:47 +0530
> "Krishna Srinivas" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Danson
> > 
> > GlusterFS works over other filesystems, so you can have LVM/RAID etc
> > underneath. Which part of FAQ says that lvm/raid doesnt work with glusterfs?
> > 
> > Krishna
> > 
> > On 5/3/07, Danson Michael Joseph <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > What is meant by the note in the FAQ that glusterFS doesn't work with
> > > LVM and md?  When I compiled and ran glusterFS, I had software raid5 on
> > > my disks with lvm on top of the raid.  I then exported a directory in
> > > one of the reiserfs formatted lvm partitions and it seemed to work
> > > fine.  Is this what is not supposed to work, or is it something else?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Danson Joseph
> > >
> > >
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