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Your gluster brick must be a directory, not a block device. The
filesystem that directory is located on must supported xattr.<br>
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David<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/19/12 1:16 PM, Sallee, Stephen
(Jake) wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am new to gluster so please be a bit
patient with me. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am trying to setup a gluster volume with
the bricks being /dev/sdb1 (or /dev/sdb, I have tried both) …
etc. however I get an error message and the operation fails.
I do not have the error message (sorry!) the only brick I have
available for testing is tied up at the moment so I cant rerun
the test to get the exact error. If I can I will post it
later.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However if I mount the partition I am able
to create the volume no problem. I have read the admin guide
several times but cannot find any reference to using a block
device only a mounted device.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is it even possible, or am I crazy for even
trying?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
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