Re: [Moosefs-users] FAQ entry on how to add a chunk server

[Elliot F. <efi...@gm...>]

>> 2. If I have 6 drives in a server. Is it better to have one chunk
>> server with 6 drives or 6 chunkservers with one drive each or
>> somewhere in the middle.
>
> 6 chunkservers will give you better performance as you are spreading out
> the reads and writes over those machines. You also have more high
> availability as the loss of a single chunkserver is not as significant
> to the cluster and its also faster to recover from when bring files
> back  up to your goal setting (assuming goals > 1).

I thought the OP was asking:  If I have one physical server with 6
drives in it, would it be better to run a single chunkserver process
and give it all six drives or run 6 chunkserver processes giving them
1 drive each.

Even if the OP wasn't asking it this way, it'd still be nice to know
the answer with regards to performance. :)

Elliot