Sectors remind me too much of disks. How about? Layers, Slices, Fragments, Knots... On Feb 18, 2012 1:57 PM, "Chris Behrens" <cbehr...@codestud.com> wrote:
> Sector? > > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > > > On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Armando Migliaccio wrote: > > > >> I think you touched the crucial point here: what is exposed to the user > and what not. Reading: > >> > >> http://wiki.openstack.org/MultiClusterZones#Design > >> > >> one would think that zones is a concept exposed to end users. You're > saying otherwise; Is it just my misunderstanding or the wiki page is out of > sync with the latest developments? If zones are not going to be exposed to > the users, what will? Just availability zones? > > > > Zones *could* be exposed, but that is not intrinsic to their > design. Availability zones could be designated as a particular level of > nesting of the overall zone design, such as a particular region, and users > could specify the AZ they want their instance to be provisioned in. But a > region might have several data centers, each of which could be a zone, and > individual DCs could have several zones within them based on the physical > layout of the building, or networking capacity, or because of incremental > build out, or for any number of other reasons, none of which are relevant > to a user. > > > > The term "zone" was adopted at a time when we weren't really > focusing on mimicking the AWS Availability Zone concept, and in hindsight, > it was a poor choice. So we should learn from that mistake and make sure we > don't choose a replacement term that already has a common usage, such as > shards segments or clusters. > > > > > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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