#913: Support running a storage node per drive easily
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Reporter: davidsarah | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: undecided
Component: unknown | Version: 1.5.0
Keywords: usability | Launchpad_bug:
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Comment(by warner):
hm. Grids with heterogeneous-capacity storage nodes, whether comprised of
a variety of sizes of local drives, or a variety of sizes of remote
storage servers, will not be able to offer uniform high reliability for
all files. Sure, we're more flexible than a simple RAID scheme (which will
refuse to use the leftover space on the larger drives), but in our basic
server-selection algorithm, we'll fill the small drives quickly and then
eventually wind up putting all the shares on the largest disk, lowering
reliability for those files down to the reliability of a single disk.
OTOH, it might still be useful to offer "reliable" storage up to the size
of your smallest (or 2nd-largest) drive, and then unreliable non-redundant
storage with the remaining space.
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