<p dir="ltr">You could perhaps use LVM on your RAID 6, and create two Logical Volumes, one per brick?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 Sep 2015 5:17 am, "Atin Mukherjee" <<a href="mailto:amukherj@redhat.com">amukherj@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On 09/22/2015 02:07 AM, Gluster Admin wrote:<br>
> Gluster users,<br>
><br>
> 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>
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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Thanks,<br>
Atin<br>
><br>
> or would it be better to setup many smaller bricks via RAID1 to support<br>
> multiple volumes.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Current setup:<br>
><br>
> NODE:/brick1 (raid6 8 disk per brick)<br>
><br>
> Smaller Brick setup:<br>
><br>
> NODE:/brick1 /brick2 /brick3 /brick4 (raid1 2 disk per brick)<br>
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