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Re: [Gluster-devel] LVM MD GlusterFS


From: Anand Avati
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] LVM MD GlusterFS
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 20:22:35 +0530

Gluster(HPC) is a completely different project than GlusterFS.
GlusterHPC deals with OS replication across systems for which LVM/RAID
support is not yet present. GlusterFS has absolutely on issues with
underlying LVM/RAID

avati

On 5/3/07, Majied Najjar <address@hidden> wrote:
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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