Hi, I'm interested in using GlusterFS for my simple home NAS system. I'm primarily interested in being able to virtualise a bunch of different sized harddrives into one large filesystem (whilst retaining the ability to read data off any individual harddrive.) At the moment, the hardware I have is: - PC with several harddrives. - Synology NAS box with several hardrives. I'd like to (1) run the PC as a storage server, and have its own harddrives as one brick, and (2) the Synology NAS as a second brick. (3) I'd like to mirror the two bricks for redundancy. (1) is the normal setup for GlusterFS, but is (2) actually possible? If I mount the Synology NAS as "/export/NAS/", for example, can I use it as a brick? Is the fact that it's an NFS share transparent to Gluster? Or does Gluster care about the underlying hardware/filesystem used? Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20141013/9d4eef80/attachment.html>
NFS does not have xattrs as far as I know. In theory, GlusterFS can support any POSIX filesystem that has support for extended attributes. Regards, -Prashanth Pai ----- Original Message ----- From: "technocrat 9000" <technocrat9000 at gmail.com> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 3:19:00 PM Subject: [Gluster-users] Use NFS as bricks? Hi, I'm interested in using GlusterFS for my simple home NAS system. I'm primarily interested in being able to virtualise a bunch of different sized harddrives into one large filesystem (whilst retaining the ability to read data off any individual harddrive.) At the moment, the hardware I have is: - PC with several harddrives. - Synology NAS box with several hardrives. I'd like to (1) run the PC as a storage server, and have its own harddrives as one brick, and (2) the Synology NAS as a second brick. (3) I'd like to mirror the two bricks for redundancy. (1) is the normal setup for GlusterFS, but is (2) actually possible? If I mount the Synology NAS as "/export/NAS/", for example, can I use it as a brick? Is the fact that it's an NFS share transparent to Gluster? Or does Gluster care about the underlying hardware/filesystem used? Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks! _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
I have tried this and unfortunately NFS doesn't support extended attributes in the way that gluster needs them, which prevents brick creation. On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 2:49 AM, technocrat 9000 <technocrat9000 at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, I'm interested in using GlusterFS for my simple home NAS system. > > I'm primarily interested in being able to virtualise a bunch of different > sized harddrives into one large filesystem (whilst retaining the ability to > read data off any individual harddrive.) > > At the moment, the hardware I have is: > > - PC with several harddrives. > - Synology NAS box with several hardrives. > > I'd like to (1) run the PC as a storage server, and have its own > harddrives as one brick, and (2) the Synology NAS as a second brick. (3) > I'd like to mirror the two bricks for redundancy. > > (1) is the normal setup for GlusterFS, but is (2) actually possible? > > If I mount the Synology NAS as "/export/NAS/", for example, can I use it > as a brick? Is the fact that it's an NFS share transparent to Gluster? Or > does Gluster care about the underlying hardware/filesystem used? > > Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20141013/ff061b0d/attachment.html>