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Hi everyone, I've read on the gluster & redhat documentation, that it seems recommended to use XFS over LVM before creating & using gluster volumes. Sources : https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/3/html/Administration_Guide/Formatting_and_Mounting_Bricks.html http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Setting%20Up%20Volumes/ My point is : do we really need LVM ? For example , on a dedicated server with disks & partitions that will not change of size, it doesn't seems necessary to use LVM. I can't understand clearl...

...e: > Hi everyone, > > I've read on the gluster & redhat documentation, that it seems recommended to > use XFS over LVM before creating & using gluster volumes. > > Sources : > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/3/html/Administration_Guide/Formatting_and_Mounting_Bricks.html > > http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Setting%20Up%20Volumes/ > > > My point is : do we really need LVM ? > For example , on a dedicated server with disks & partitions that will not > change of size, it doesn't seems necessary to use...

...t;> >> I've read on the gluster & redhat documentation, that it seems >> recommended to use XFS over LVM before creating & using gluster volumes. >> >> Sources : >> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/3/html/Administration_Guide/Formatting_and_Mounting_Bricks.html >> >> http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Setting%20Up%20Volumes/ >> >> >> My point is : do we really need LVM ? > This recommendations was added after gluster-snapshot. Gluster snapshot > relays on LVM snapshot. So if you start wi...

...te: > Hi everyone, > > I've read on the gluster & redhat documentation, that it seems > recommended to use XFS over LVM before creating & using gluster volumes. > > Sources : > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/3/html/Administration_Guide/Formatting_and_Mounting_Bricks.html > > http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Setting%20Up%20Volumes/ > > > My point is : do we really need LVM ? This recommendations was added after gluster-snapshot. Gluster snapshot relays on LVM snapshot. So if you start with out lvm, in future if you...

...;> >> I've read on the gluster & redhat documentation, that it seems >> recommended to use XFS over LVM before creating & using gluster volumes. >> >> Sources : >> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/3/html/Administration_Guide/Formatting_and_Mounting_Bricks.html >> >> http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Setting%20Up%20Volumes/ >> >> >> My point is : do we really need LVM ? >> For example , on a dedicated server with disks & partitions that will >> not change of size, it doesn&...

...on the gluster & redhat documentation, that it seems >>> recommended to use XFS over LVM before creating & using gluster >>> volumes. >>> >>> Sources : >>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/3/html/Administration_Guide/Formatting_and_Mounting_Bricks.html >>> >>> >>> http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Setting%20Up%20Volumes/ >>> >>> >>> >>> My point is : do we really need LVM ? >> This recommendations was added after gluster-snapshot. Gluster snapsh...

On 01/05/2018 02:27, Thing wrote: > Hi, > > So is the KVM or Vmware as the host(s)?? I basically have the same setup > ie 3 x 1TB "raid1" nodes and VMs, but 1gb networking.? I do notice with > vmware using NFS disk was pretty slow (40% of a single disk) but this > was over 1gb networking which was clearly saturating.? Hence I am moving > to KVM to use glusterfs