Re: [Moosefs-users] Chunks

[Michal B. <mic...@ge...>]

Hi!

But the default chunk size of 64MB is hard coded and we do not recommend to tamper with it as unforeseen things may happen.


Best regards
-Michal

-----Original Message-----
From: Davies Liu [mailto:dav...@gm...] 
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 1:18 PM
To: Heiko Schröter
Cc: moo...@li...
Subject: Re: [Moosefs-users] Chunks

Hi, 

you could modify default chunk size 64M to very high value, 
then a file has only one chunk, and in one chunk server.

Davies

在 2011-2-24，下午4:24， Heiko Schröter 写道：

> Hello,
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> Reason is that in case of a total unrecoverable loss of a single chunkserver we would loose some files completly.
> But that would be better to us than loosing some parts in all files.
> 
> Incrementing the goal is not an option since the storage capacity is limited.
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> Heiko
> 
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