Forgive me if this question is stupid. Can you explain more why you would say " either the Ceph object gateway or Ceph RBD makes more sense than CephFS currently." ? Because CephFS is production ready? Thanks. -chen -----Original Message----- From: Neil Levine [mailto:neil.levine@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:05 AM To: Patrick McGarry Cc: Li, Chen; ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: using Ceph FS as OpenStack Glance's backend ..to be more precise, I should have said: object storage has been the preferred mechanism of late in Openstack, but RBD makes more sense due to the copy-on-write facility. Either way, either the Ceph object gateway or Ceph RBD makes more sense than CephFS currently. neil On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Neil Levine <neil.levine@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think object storage (using the Swift-compatible Ceph Object > Gateway) is the preferred mechanism for a Glance backend. > > Neil > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Patrick McGarry <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Any reason you have chosen to use CephFS here instead of RBD for >> direct integration with Glance? >> >> http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/ >> >> >> Best Regards, >> >> >> Patrick McGarry >> Director, Community || Inktank >> >> http://ceph.com || http://inktank.com @scuttlemonkey || @ceph || >> @inktank >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Li, Chen <chen.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I'm trying to use Ceph FS as glance's backend. >>> >>> I have mount Ceph FS at glance machine. And edit >>> /etc/glance/glance-api.conf to use the mounted directory. >>> >>> But when I upload the image as I used to, I met the error: >>> >>> >>> >>> Request returned failure status. >>> >>> None >>> >>> HTTPServiceUnavailable (HTTP 503) >>> >>> >>> >>> If I change back to use native directory, image can upload successfully. >>> >>> >>> >>> Anyone know why? >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> -chen >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ceph-users mailing list >>> ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list >> ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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