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3.3.4 Creating Dispersed Volumes

This section discusses creating a pool using dispersed volumes.

You set the volume redundancy level when you create a dispersed volume. The redundancy value sets how many bricks can be lost without interrupting the operation of the volume. The redundancy value must be greater than 0, and the total number of bricks must be greater than 2*redundancy. A dispersed volume must have a minimum of three bricks.

All bricks of a disperse set should have the same capacity, otherwise, when the smallest brick becomes full, no additional data is allowed in the disperse set.

Example 3.8 Creating a dispersed volume with one brick on three nodes

This example creates a dispersed volume with one brick on three nodes.

# gluster volume create myvolume disperse 3 redundancy 1 \
  node{1,2,3}:/data/glusterfs/myvolume/mybrick/brick
volume create: myvolume: success: please start the volume to access data
# gluster volume start myvolume
volume start: myvolume: success
# gluster volume info

Volume Name: myvolume
Type: Disperse
Volume ID: ...
Status: Started
Snapshot Count: 0
Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: node1:/data/glusterfs/myvolume/mybrick/brick
Brick2: node2:/data/glusterfs/myvolume/mybrick/brick
Brick3: node3:/data/glusterfs/myvolume/mybrick/brick
Options Reconfigured:
transport.address-family: inet
nfs.disable: on