Should We Ever Talk About JBODs

scottalanmiller

@BBigford said in Should We Ever Talk About JBODs:

Literally just a bunch of disks thrown into a pool.

Same as "just a bunch of disks thrown into an array".

Normally that's the polar opposite of JBOD.

stacksofplates

Here's wikipedia's def:

So going by that, it's a JBOD until you span them (or essentially do anything else with multiple disks). So then theoretically, I guess if you had a specific mount point for each drive, it would be a JBOD.

sda -> /disk1
sdb -> /disk2
sdc -> /disk3

So I guess if nothing is spanned across, it could be a JBOD?

scottalanmiller

@stacksofplates said in Should We Ever Talk About JBODs:

Here's wikipedia's def:

So going by that, it's a JBOD until you span them (or essentially do anything else with multiple disks). So then theoretically, I guess if you had a specific mount point for each drive, it would be a JBOD.

sda -> /disk1
sdb -> /disk2
sdc -> /disk3

So I guess if nothing is spanned across, it could be a JBOD?

It doesn't list only the two things, or else RAID would still be JBOD. It just is two examples there. One example is JBOD, one is SPAN. There are many others, some listed, some not. Wasn't MAID on the list, too?

scottalanmiller

Isn't a pool a form of spanning? Do pools display the original devices through, or new ones? Pools are an LVM, and any LVM use means JBOD is long gone.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said in Should We Ever Talk About JBODs:

re. One example is JBOD, one is SPAN. There are many others, some listed, some not. Wasn't MAID on the list, too?

I only copied some of the definition. My point was they said a SPAN is "from" a JBOD. Being from, it can't be that after you span them.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said in Should We Ever Talk About JBODs:

Isn't a pool a form of spanning? Do pools display the original devices through, or new ones? Pools are an LVM, and any LVM use means JBOD is long gone.

I never mentioned pooling. I wasn't talking about any logical volume implementations. Just straight disks with file systems mounted to individual mount points.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said in Should We Ever Talk About JBODs:

@stacksofplates said in Should We Ever Talk About JBODs:

Here's wikipedia's def:

So going by that, it's a JBOD until you span them (or essentially do anything else with multiple disks). So then theoretically, I guess if you had a specific mount point for each drive, it would be a JBOD.

sda -> /disk1
sdb -> /disk2
sdc -> /disk3

So I guess if nothing is spanned across, it could be a JBOD?

It doesn't list only the two things, or else RAID would still be JBOD. It just is two examples there. One example is JBOD, one is SPAN. There are many others, some listed, some not. Wasn't MAID on the list, too?

Yeah, MAID was on the list. I only copied the first two because of the "from JBOD" phrase.

scottalanmiller

@stacksofplates said in Should We Ever Talk About JBODs:

@scottalanmiller said in Should We Ever Talk About JBODs:

re. One example is JBOD, one is SPAN. There are many others, some listed, some not. Wasn't MAID on the list, too?

I only copied some of the definition. My point was they said a SPAN is "from" a JBOD. Being from, it can't be that after you span them.

Ah, just like a pool is "from a JBOD."

Obsolesce

Uh-oh. Dell is doing it now ^_^

scottalanmiller

Argh

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Should We Ever Talk About JBODs:

Argh

ROFL.