Bricks are the basic unit of storage in Red Hat Storage, and they are combined into volumes. Each brick is a directory or mountpoint. XFS is the recommended brick filesystem.

When adding a brick to a volume, the brick is expressed by combining a server address with export directory path in the following format: SERVER:EXPORT

For example: myhostname:/exports/myexportdir/

While volumes can be created using the Administration Portal, bricks must be manually created on Red Hat Storage nodes. Only after the directory structure is in place can bricks be added to volumes.

If your brick consists of a mounted device with an XFS filesystem as opposed to a directory in an XFS filesystem, consider making the mount permanent across reboots by adding it to the /etc/fstab file.