On May 4, 2013, at 9:51 PM, Gregory Farnum <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm pretty sure we'd just want to use erasure-coded RADOS pools, > rather than trying to do any CephFS magic erasure encoding. Doing it > above the RADOS layers would introduce some very odd behaviors in > terms of losing objects, as you've mentioned, and requires the clients > to do a lot more network traffic for reads and writes. Cool. I was just thinking of some setups I've heard of in HPC environments where the extra client work was ostensibly worth it in terms of reducing disk heads, or something :) -Noah-- 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