[Sheepdog] Dividing objects across disks

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:11:55PM +0900, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
> > Yes, that would work fine, at the cost of some complexity in management -
> > having to make each server be its own zone cancels some of the plug-and-play
> > benefit of sheepdog.
> 
> If the server daemon uses a node specific data (e.g. the ip address)
> as a default zone id, we don't need to specify the zone id, do we?

That's true. Of course, you then can't use zones in the way they were
originally intended (e.g. to ensure one copy of the data in data centre A
and another in data centre B), unless there are zones of zones :-)

Regards,

Brian.