NOTE: it's quite likely you don't need to know any of this. but since you're here... NOTE: there is currently no way to change a class's replication policy, except modifying the database, like so: ALTER TABLE class SET replpolicy='Union(MultipleHosts(3), OnDevice(13))' WHERE dmid=3 AND classid=1; Yes, we know this is sub-optimal. A mogadm command should be done in the future. About replication policies strings: -- if you don't have a colon in a policy, "MogileFS::ReplicationPolicy::" is prepended to the class name -- if a class doesn't have a replpolicy value, the historical default is used: "MultipleHosts()". see MogileFS::ReplicationPolicy::MultipleHosts for what that does. -- a replication policy of "MultipleHosts()" uses the class's "mindevcount" column. but an explicit value, like "MultipleHosts(3)" will ignore the configured "mindevcount"