Re: [osd-dev] [PATCH 1/9] exofs: osd Swiss army knife

Jeff Garzik
2009-01-13T15:17:39Z

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Having one super block would be silly.

Yep.

> But aren't most kinds of replication better done behind the OSD level,
> on the storage fabric? OSD is all about letting the fabric decide
> things like allocation and durability strategies after all.

Probably, but one cannot _assume_ that. The OSD device might just be a
dumb, non-replicated OSD simulator, or in the future, a singleton SATA
drive.

Jeff