Definition/purpose of device
dormando
dormando at rydia.net
Wed Sep 5 18:52:29 UTC 2007
> I'm a little confused as to what a device represents, the mogilefs home page
> states that "MogileFS replicates the files between devices which are on
> different hosts", so what is the use-case for having multiple devices on one
> host?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon
>
Device is a harddrive or logical volume. Mogile folks tend to JBOD and
add each disk independently, since there's no reason to waste money on raid.
-Dormando
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