[Gluster-users] multiple volumes on same brick?

Atin Mukherjee
2015-09-22T04:17:35Z

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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