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[Discuss] The Ceph storage system, the CephFS filesystem



Have you tried moosefs?

We tested ceph, glusterfs and moosefs
and decided to use moosefs in production.

Fevzi

On 04/23/2014 02:19 AM, Rich Braun wrote:
> 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
>
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