[sheepdog-users] different size of sheepdog storage discs

Jens WEBER jweber at tek2b.org
Thu Jul 12 07:06:39 CEST 2012


> > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 11:44:23AM +0200, Jens WEBER wrote:
> > > > How I do that?
> > > 
> > > That -v <num> argument sets that number of vnodes, which balances how
> > > much data goes onto each node.  I'd really love to automate this based
> > > on statvfs or similar output, but that'll need some more work.
> > >
> > What is the number of vnodes? vnode = virtual guest / vnode = vdi disc image 
> / vnode = ?
> 
> Right now it's really just a relative unit - the default is 64, and by
> assigning more or less to a daemon you change it's weight.  I'd really
> love to make the correlate to actual storage capacity by default.
> 
setup can be very different. I think it is okay to leave this task to the admin.
My Proposal is only the change help message

-specify the number of virtual nodes
+weight for number of virtual nodes



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