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Chris Lu 2022-11-21 15:17:36 -08:00
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@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ The SeaweedFS volume here is different from common storage volume.
The following is all about SeaweedFS volumes.
SeaweedFS assumes there are many SeaweedFS volumes. Data placement, replication, collection, S3 buckets, TTL, CSI mount, etc, are all based on volumes. So if the error is `no free volumes left`, please add more volumes.
SeaweedFS assumes there are many SeaweedFS volumes. Data placement, replication, collection, disk type, S3 buckets, TTL, CSI mount, etc, are all based on volumes. So if the error is `no free volumes left`, please add more volumes.
Specifically,
* A different replication would need a different set of volumes.
* A different collection would need a different set of volumes.
* A different TTL would need a different set of volumes.
* A different disk type would need a different set of volumes.
* A different S3 bucket is mapped to a collection, would need a different set of volumes.
* A CSI mount is automatically mapped to a bucket, which needs a few volumes.
@ -20,6 +21,8 @@ The default volume size is 30GB, and default to 8 volumes. Very likely you would
`-volumePreallocate` will preallocate disk spaces to volumes. These disk spaces are "taken" by the assigned volume, and could not be used by other volumes, even though the "df" command would report them as "free" if the volumes are not full.
SeaweedFS also assumes there is a default disk type, which is either empty or `"hdd"`. If all your disk type is `"ssd"`, you should leave the disk type as empty since the disk type basically is just a tag to group the volumes.
### How to access the server dashboard?
SeaweedFS has web dashboards for its different services: