[Discuss] The Ceph storage system, the CephFS filesystem

[richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)]

I've fiddled unsuccessfully with the Ceph storage system and the
similarly-named (but separate codebase) CephFS cluster filesystem.  What I was
hoping for was a more broadly-supported/easier-to-install cluster technology
than OCFS2, that will hopefully work better than GlusterFS.

Before I give up on it (already gave up trying to get OCFS2 to work) and turn
to GlusterFS, I'd love to hear from any of you who are using CephFS.  Does it
work well?  How do I get it working without a lot of effort?  Are some distros
better-supported than others?

The official Ceph website is nothing short of overwhelming, and the
"ceph-deploy" python scripts are buggy mess, at least on my personal
distro-of-choice (OpenSuSE) and with the most recent long-term supported Ceph
version (0.72 Emperor).  Yet the promise of this platform is quite tantalizing
so I want to get it working.

-rich