Hi Matt, On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Matt W. Benjamin wrote: > Hi > > Just FYI, on the NFS integration front. A pnfs files (RFC5661)-capable > NFSv4 re-exporter for Ceph has been committed to the Ganesha NFSv4 > server development branch. We're continuing to enhance and elaborate > this. We have had on our (full) plates for a while to return Ceph > client library changes. We've finished pullup and rebasing of these, > are doing some final testing of a couple things in preparation to push a > branch for review. This is great news! I'm interested to hear how the Ganesha bits map pNFS server instances to OSDs.. is it just matching IP addresses or something? sage > > Regards, > > Matt > > ----- "Sage Weil" <sage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Tren Blackburn wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Smart Weblications GmbH - Florian > > > Wiessner <f.wiessner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > i use ceph to provide storage via rbd for our virtualization > > cluster delivering > > > > KVM based high availability Virtual Machines to my customers. I > > also use it > > > > as rbd device with ocfs2 on top of it for a 4 node webserver > > cluster as shared > > > > storage - i do this, because unfortunatelly cephfs is not ready > > yet ;) > > > > > > > Hi Florian; > > > > > > When you say "cephfs is not ready yet", what parts about it are not > > > ready? There are vague rumblings about that in general, but I'd > > love > > > to see specific issues. I understand multiple *active* mds's are > > not > > > supported, but what other issues are you aware of? > > > > Inktank is not yet supporting it because we do not have the QA in > > place > > and general hardening that will make us feel comfortable recommending > > it > > for customers. That said, it works pretty well for most workloads. > > In > > particular, if you stay away from the snapshots and multi-mds, you > > should > > be quite stable. > > > > The engineering team here is about to do a bit of a pivot and refocus > > on > > the file system now that the object store and RBD are in pretty good > > shape. That will mean both core fs/mds stability and features as well > > as > > integration efforts (NFS/CIFS/Hadoop). > > > > 'Ready' is in the eye of the beholder. There are a few people using > > the > > fs successfully in production, but not too many. > > > > sage > > > > > > > > > > And if there's a page documenting this already, I apologize...and > > > would appreciate a link :) > > > > > > t. > > > -- > > > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > Matt Benjamin > The Linux Box > 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 > Ann Arbor, MI 48104 > > http://linuxbox.com > > tel. 734-761-4689 > fax. 734-769-8938 > cel. 734-216-5309 > -- > 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 > > -- 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
