Re: [Moosefs-users] chunk server question: allocating chunk space

[Travis H. <tra...@tr...>]

On 12-05-03 8:49 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> Various MooseFS manuals seem to emphasize the necessity of having 
> MooseFS chunks in a file system of their own. Why is that? Is there 
> any way to just specify the desired maximum space allocation?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Boris.


There is not currently a way to specify the "please only use this % of 
the host disk space" with MooseFS.

The larger issue is that other system processes and activities (such as 
log files, data files, user home folder files, download files, etc.)  
could quite possibly grow to fill the disk space at a rate that is 
unanticipated by MooseFS, and that these kinds of external influences 
might influence the MooseFS capacity planning for rebalancing chunks 
among the other chunk servers in a non optimal way.


Travis