On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:17:23PM +0200, Wido den Hollander wrote: :On 08/22/2012 03:55 PM, Jonathan Proulx wrote: :You can also use the USB sticks[0] from Stec, they have servergrade :onboard USB sticks for these kind of applications. Those look quite interesting. :A couple of questions still need to be answered though: :* Which OS are you planning on using? Ubuntu 12.04 is recommended Ubuntu 12.04 is our current preferred OS :* Which filesystem do you want to use underneath the OSDs? Whatever I can get to work best in testing :) Since this is for a research platform not a product I'd likely start with BTRFS and see if it is "stable enough" and "performant enough" with fall back to XFS if needed -Jon :Wido : :[0]: http://www.stec-inc.com/product/ufm.php -- 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