[sheepdog-users] Multiple disks per server

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 04:24:25PM +0800, Liu Yuan wrote:
> On 07/02/2012 12:58 PM, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is sheepdog aware of the location of sheepdog daemons ?
> > 
> > Can the replication occur on sheepdog daemons on same server ?
> 
> Yes, you can, actually, mostly I start dozens of sheep on a single node
> to simulate cluster behavior.

Note that you need to speicify the -z option to place different sheep
daemons on the same node into different zones - the default behaviour
is that all sheep on the same node are considered to be in a single
replication zone.