No more limit in number of disk, and no more need of a startup file tricks.
The metadata-store is always in /var/lib/sheepdog/. (spof, so you need raid)
But the object-storage are in /var/lib/sheepdog/discN. You can hotplug/unplug theses disks, have failures,...
You can also use a journal on separate disk, like ssd, for fast write.
simply create a mount:
/var/lib/sheepdog/journal
Some tunnables variables in /etc/default/sheepdog:
ROOTDIR=/var/lib/sheepdog/
By example,users can change it to /var/lib/vz/sheepdog if they want (As this is the location where we have the more space by default)
JOURNALSIZE=256
User can tune the journal size, 256M by default