Re: [Moosefs-users] Hardware choice

[Steve T. <sm...@cb...>]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Atom Powers wrote:

> Because Moose is so good at dealing with system failure but slow to 
> re-balance chunks I would recommend several "smaller" capacity servers 
> over a few very large ones. Even at 10TB per server it takes a very long 
> time to re-balance when I add or remove a system from the cluster; I 
> would avoid going over about 10TB per server. Less is more in this case.

I have to agree with this. I have two chunkservers with 25TB storage, as 
well as several smaller chunkservers, and I recently removed 20TB of disk 
from one of them (about 70% full). It took a little over 10 days to 
replicate the removed chunks.

Steve