Re: [Moosefs-users] mfs's knowledge of file system to server mapping

[Ricardo J. B. <ric...@da...>]

El Martes 17 May 2011, Tomas Lovato escribió:
> I have a question.
> I setup 8 chunk servers, each with 6 hdd's. I tried various file
> systems(mdraid 0 and 5 and jbod) layouts with a goal of 2. I was wondering
> if mfs knows that if I have 6 individual file systems per server, that it
> shouldn't store two copies of a file on the same server. It would be much
> easier to add additional disks further down the line if I don't have to
> expand or grow a raid file systems on each server. But I want to make sure
> that mfs knows not to store copies of files on
>
> Otherwise I was very happy with the testing so far.

Copies are distributed in different servers, not in different disks on the 
same server, as long as you're using goal > 1.

Cheers,
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Ricardo J. Barberis
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