Specify the following attributes when creating a new volume:
* The storage pool on which the volume is placed
* Number of block-level replicas
* Whether the physical blocks should be allocated locally on the node issuing
the IO or striped across the cluster
* Whether writes to the volume should use direct IO
* Number of file system blocks to be laid out sequentially on disk to behave
like a single large block
* Local storage attached to specific node(s) where the replicas of the
volume should be allocated