<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Gianluca Cecchi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div>I&#39;m trying to create a new volume. I&#39;m in 4.1.2</div><div>I&#39;m following these indications:</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Working_with_Gluster_Storage/" target="_blank">http://www.ovirt.org/<wbr>documentation/admin-guide/<wbr>chap-Working_with_Gluster_<wbr>Storage/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>When I click the &quot;add brick&quot; button, I don&#39;t see anything in &quot;Brick Directory&quot; dropdown field and I cannot manuall input a directory name.</div><div><br></div><div>On the 3 nodes I already have formatted and mounted fs</div><div><br></div><div><div>[root@ovirt01 ~]# df -h /gluster/brick3/</div><div>Filesystem                  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on</div><div>/dev/mapper/gluster-export   50G   33M   50G   1% /gluster/brick3</div><div>[root@ovirt01 ~]# </div></div><div><br></div><div>The guide tells </div><div><br></div><div>7. Click the Add Bricks button to select bricks to add to the volume. Bricks must be created externally on the Gluster Storage nodes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>What does it mean with &quot;created externally&quot;? </div><div>The next step from os point would be volume creation but it is indeed what I would like to do from the gui...</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Gianluca</div><div><br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It seems I have to de-select the checkbox &quot;Show available bricks from host&quot; and so I can manually the the directory of the bricks</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">BTW: I see that after creating a volume optimized for oVirt in web admin gui of 4.1.2 I get slight option for it in respect for a pre-existing volume created in 4.0.5 during initial setup with gdeploy.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">NOTE: during 4.0.5 setup I had gluster 3.7 installed, while now I have gluster 3.10 (manually updated from CentOS storage SIG)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Making a &quot;gluster volume info&quot; and then a diff of the output for the 2 volumes I have:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">new volume ==   &lt;</div><div class="gmail_extra">old volume  ==    &gt;</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">&lt; cluster.shd-max-threads: 8</div><div class="gmail_extra">---</div><div class="gmail_extra">&gt; cluster.shd-max-threads: 6</div><div class="gmail_extra">13a13,14</div><div class="gmail_extra">&gt; features.shard-block-size: 512MB<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">16c17</div><div class="gmail_extra">&lt; network.remote-dio: enable</div><div class="gmail_extra">---</div><div class="gmail_extra">&gt; network.remote-dio: off</div><div class="gmail_extra">23a25</div><div class="gmail_extra">&gt; performance.readdir-ahead: on</div><div class="gmail_extra">25c27</div><div class="gmail_extra">&lt; server.allow-insecure: on</div><div class="gmail_extra">---</div><div class="gmail_extra">&gt; performance.strict-o-direct: on</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Do I have to change anything for the newly created one?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Gianluca</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>