[Sheepdog] sheepdog question

MORITA Kazutaka morita.kazutaka at lab.ntt.co.jp
Mon Oct 10 06:07:23 CEST 2011


At Sun, 9 Oct 2011 00:53:48 +0200,
Marin Marušić wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question, if I have uneven storage space available across various
> servers in the cluster, will I still be able to use Sheepdog? Or must I have
> the same storage configuration in each and every server? FE I have 3 servers
> with 6x500GB disks in raid 10, and have 3 servers with only 2 500GB drives
> RAID1. And I can't change that config for the time being :)

Run multiple sheep daemons proportional to its capacity (3 daemons on
servers with 6x500 GB and one daemon on the other), and Sheepdog would
work as you expect, I think.  But the best way is to stop using RAID
and run a sheep daemon on for each disk.

Thanks,

Kazutaka



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