Hello Sam, This question should be addressed on ceph-devel (CC'ed) rather than the ceph-community list. The latter is meant for community engagement things. -Joao On 08/08/2018 11:44 PM, Sam Kumar wrote: > Hello Ceph Community, > I am using Ceph RADOS for a research project, and I am trying to > understand Ceph's consistency properties. I know that RADOS is > considered a "CP" system as opposed to an "AP" system. > > But, what specific consistency properties are guaranteed by Ceph RADOS? > In particular, does it guarantee consistency in the classic sense (i.e., > linearizability) or something weaker? > > At a high level, based on the design of Ceph, it seems like it should be > linearizable (as it uses stable hashing in the common case and Paxos on > failure). But I wanted to ask the community since I couldn't find > RADOS's specific consistency property documented anywhere. > > Sam Kumar -- 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
