<div dir="ltr">yes this is what I meant although did not convey in the best terms. This is working fine in testing but my main concern was having multiple volumes i/o hitting the same disks as a potential bottleneck. What I think I have settled on is not to subpartition the LVM/Physical disks but create seperate bricks from seperate RAID volumes on each server such that I can isolate I/O for many clients without losing the ability to scale the filesystem--one volume per brick, multiple bricks.<div><br></div><div>thanks guys<br><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Dave Warren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davew@hireahit.com" target="_blank">davew@hireahit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2015-09-21 21:17, Atin Mukherjee wrote:<br>
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On 09/22/2015 02:07 AM, Gluster Admin wrote:<br>
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>Gluster users,<br>
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>We have a multiple node setup where each server has a single XFS brick<br>
>(underlying storage is hardware battery backed raid6). Are there any<br>
>issues creating multiple gluster volumes using the same underlying<br>
>bricks from a performance or management standpoint?<br>
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This is not possible in Gluster. A brick (partition) is considered to be<br>
the smallest unit of the break down of a volume.<br>
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While true, I wonder if the original poster meant to ask if they can have multiple bricks belonging to different gluster volumes on the same file system volume?<br>
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In this case, the answer is yes, one could mount a file system, and create separate bricks which belong to different gluster volumes.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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