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6.6. Creating Striped Volumes

Important

Striped volume is a technology preview feature. Technology Preview features are not fully supported under Red Hat subscription level agreements (SLAs), may not be functionally complete, and are not intended for production use. However, these features provide early access to upcoming product innovations, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.
This type of volume stripes data across bricks in the volume. Use striped volumes only in high concurrency environments, accessing very large files.

Note

The number of bricks must be equal to the stripe count for a striped volume.
Illustration of a Striped Volume

Figure 6.6. Illustration of a Striped Volume

Create a Striped Volume

Use gluster volume create to create a striped volume, and gluster volume info to verify successful volume creation.

Pre-requisites

  1. Run the gluster volume create command to create the striped volume.
    The syntax is # gluster volume create NEW-VOLNAME [stripe COUNT] [transport tcp | rdma | tcp,rdma] NEW-BRICK...
    The default value for transport is tcp. Other options can be passed such as auth.allow or auth.reject. See Section 8.1, “Configuring Volume Options” for a full list of parameters.

    Example 6.8. Striped Volume Across Two Servers

    # gluster volume create test-volume stripe 2 transport tcp server1:/exp1/brick server2:/exp2/brick
Creation of test-volume has been successful
Please start the volume to access data.
  2. Run # gluster volume start VOLNAME to start the volume. 
    # gluster volume start test-volume
Starting test-volume has been successful
  3. Run gluster volume info command to optionally display the volume information.