On 9/10/09 8:06 PM, "David B. Ritch" <david.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you both. That's what we did today. It seems fairly reasonable > when a node has a few disks, say 3-5. However, at some sites, with > larger nodes, it seems more awkward.
Hmm. The vast majority of sites are using 4 disk configurations, that I know of. I'd love to know who using 5 or more drives and have a conversation with them. [The only people who did terasort on 12 disks that I know of is Google... and they weren't using Hadoop. :)]