Gluster users - Dec 2010 - different back-end filesystems

Can I have different backend filesystems eg some xfs, some ext4 on the
bricks in a glusterfs volume?

This would just be a temporary measure, I'm thinking of migrating our
replicated volume, and thought that doing one brick at a time, and
resyncing might be easier than backing up the whole lot and starting
from scratch.

David

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David Lloyd
V Consultants
www.v-consultants.co.uk

Yep that's fine, I do it with ext4 and btrfs. The only requirement is 
extended attributes (which everything does these days). If in doubt you 
can test with:

# touch hello.txt
# setfattr -n user.foo -v bar hello.txt
# getfattr -n user.foo hello.txt
# file: hello.txt
user.foo="bar"
# rm hello.tx


On 12/20/2010 07:34 PM, David Lloyd wrote:
> Can I have different backend filesystems eg some xfs, some ext4 on the
> bricks in a glusterfs volume?
>
> This would just be a temporary measure, I'm thinking of migrating our
> replicated volume, and thought that doing one brick at a time, and
> resyncing might be easier than backing up the whole lot and starting
> from scratch.
>
> David
>