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Configuring a brick and volume

The following steps of GlusterFS volume configuration require that we create a brick file system and the volume itself:

For this lab, we will use the root file system to create a GlusterFS brick. This setup can only be used for test and development purposes and is not suitable for production usage. All GlusterFS production installations should use separate file systems for GlusterFS bricks, preferably located on separate physical block devices.

# mkdir /exports/gluster# gluster volume create gvol1 storage.example.com:/exports/gluster forcevolume create: gvol1: success: please start the volume to access data

The force option is required here since we are using the / file system to create glusterFS volume. If ...