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imho, start by defining your needs then design the system to meet
them. The only goal set out below is that you, "want to get as much
storage out of these as possible." This would mean raid0 or 1 brick
per disk with a distribute array (no replication).<br>
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Identically sized bricks are best. Often if the disk sizes are
mixed, raid or partitioning are used to create bricks of the same
size.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/03/2015 09:36 AM, Bill Dossett
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, this is my first attempt at Gluster
storage.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just a quick help me get started question –
the bare metal page yields a “not found” on the web site so…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have two dell 2950s fully populated with
5 x 300GB 10K disks.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I want to get as much storage out of these
as possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have two more dell 2950s each with 4 x
146GB 10K disks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Should I build one RAID 5 container on the
first two servers, load up CentOS7 and then Gluster on that?
using the unused partition of what is left after loading
CentOS?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Or should I be looking at moving physical
disks around and putting the smaller 146 GB disks as RAID 1 in
each of the 4 servers for OS and distributing the 300GB disks
amoung all the servers and maybe pick some more up on Ebay to
get all 4 servers identical?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would appreciate any advice on short notice
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