Re: [osd-dev] [PATCH 1/9] exofs: osd Swiss army knife
From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Tue Jan 13 2009 - 10:17:40 EST
Jamie Lokier wrote:
Having one super block would be silly.
Yep.
But aren't most kinds of replication better done behind the OSD level,
on the storage fabric? OSD is all about letting the fabric decide
things like allocation and durability strategies after all.
Probably, but one cannot _assume_ that. The OSD device might just be a
dumb, non-replicated OSD simulator, or in the future, a singleton SATA
drive.
Jeff
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