Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:17:10 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [osd-dev] [PATCH 1/9] exofs: osd Swiss army knife |
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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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