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[Nathanael Burton <nathanael.i.burton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sectors remind me too much of disks.

How about? Layers, Slices, Fragments, Knots...
On Feb 18, 2012 1:57 PM, "Chris Behrens" <cbehrens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
> >
> >
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