On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 15:27, sheng qiu <herbert1984106@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks a lot for your help. > i am trying to read the codes of ceph and get a deep understand of how > it works with its components. but i find it very hard to get into it, > can you give me some hint on how to read the codes efficiently? I'm afraid it comes down to reading, trying, failing, re-reading, and repeating that a lot. I wrote a "big picture" overview of the architecture of Ceph (while still trying to keep it very very short) over here: http://ceph.newdream.net/docs/latest/architecture/ For me personally, knowledge of other network/distributed filesystems, including things like HDFS, was pretty helpful in getting a grasp of what's where. I still don't know much of the details of the messaging etc, but I think one can get a good overview understanding of Ceph's internals in a few weeks. I'm personally putting my time into making Ceph conceptually simpler, not toward trying to explain the complexities. Hopefully that'll be more useful, in the long run. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
