Re: [Moosefs-users] How to make MFS replicate automatically?

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

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:07:49 +0800
Max Cantor <mxc...@gm...> wrote:

> I have a sense that this question is due to confusing drives and chunkservers.  MFS only replicates across chunkservers.  So, if you have multiple drives attached to a single chunkserver, MFS wont replicate inside of the chunkserver.
Agreed.
> 
> this brings up my question - can one safely run multiple chunkserver processes on a single machine?
> 
> max
Provided you take care of port numbers, and partitions used by
different CS processes yes. But you lose fault tolerance. A failing box
will take down several CS…which is pretty bad. You definitely don't
want to do that :)
HTH,
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