Re: [Moosefs-users] Question about goal

[Anh K. H. <ky...@vi...>]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:55:59 +0100
"Samuel Hassine, Olympe Network" <sam...@ol...> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> If I have 4 servers with 2 disks (so 8 disks) and I set a goal of 2
> on all my files and directories. The goal regards to servers or
> disks?
> For example, could a file be replicated between 2 disks on the same 
> server or MFS forces the replication to be done between 2 servers?

To the chunk servers. Example:

 $ mfsfileinfo  README 
 README:
        chunk 0: 00000000000113E3_00000001 / (id:70627 ver:1)
                copy 1: 10.0.0.92:9422
                copy 2: 10.0.0.91:9422

> I the first case, if I want a actual failover solution, I need a
> goal of 3.

You would study failover solution for the master first :) Search some old topics on the mailing list.

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