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

[Jeff Garzik]

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



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