Is it possible to use Global File System (GFS) with software RAID?

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Software RAID cannot be used in a clustered environment because the software can only run on one node. This means that the other nodes would not know how to correctly access the devices. For this reason, GFS cannot be run on software RAID.

However, GFS comes with its own volume manager named pool. Pool is able to do RAID0 or striping.

Currently there are...

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