Hi all,
I've been investigating cluster filesystems for a while now, and I have a few
questions about Ceph I hope you don't mind me asking here. This is in the
context of using Ceph as a POSIX filesystem and alternative to something like NFS.
1. Is Ceph stable enough for "real" use yet? I read that upgrading to
v0.48 required a reformat, which I imagine would be a bit of an issue in a
production system. Is this how upgrades are normally done? Is anyone running
Ceph in a production environment with real data yet?
2. Why does the wiki say that you can run one or three monitor daemons, but
running two is worse than one? Wouldn't running two be less work than running
three?
3. If I have multiple disks in a machine that I can dedicate to Ceph, is it
better to RAID them and present Ceph with a single filesystem, or do you get
better results by giving Ceph a filesystem on each disk and letting it look
after the striping and any faulty disks?
4. How resilient is the system? I can find a lot of information saying one
node can go away without any data loss, but does that mean losing a second
node will take everything down? Can you configure it such that every node has
a complete copy of the cluster, so as long as any one node survives, all the
data is available?
5. Given that the cluster filesystem contains files, which are then stored
as other files in a different filesystem, does this affect performance much?
I'm thinking of something like a git repository which accesses file metadata a
lot, and seems to suffer a bit if it's not running off a local disk.
Hopefully I'm not asking questions which are already covered in the
documentation - if so please point me in the right direction.
Many thanks,
Adam.
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