On Feb 18, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Nathanael Burton wrote: > Sectors remind me too much of disks.
Right.. I mentioned it because I would think it'd be rather difficult to confuse 'Nova sectors' with sectors on a disk. > > How about? Layers, Slices, Fragments, Knots... Of those, I'd probably prefer 'Knots'. - Chris > > 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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
