Re: [Moosefs-users] Chunks

[Laurent W. <lw...@hy...>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:24:11 +0100
Heiko Schröter <sch...@iu...> wrote:

> Hello,
Hi,
> 
> we are currently investigating moosefs as a successor of our 200TB storage cfs.
> mfs-1.6.20, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5, x86_64, fuse 2.8.5
> Everything is working fine.
> 
> We have a question about the way mfs handles chunks.
> Is it possible to keep the chunks on a single chunkserver, instead of "load balance" them to all chunkservers ?
Not that I know of. mfs is designed for reliability, and working with
goal=1 is as bad as raid 0 when it comes to it.
I don't think such a feature is planned, but I'm not part of mfs dev
team :)
Regards,
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