This will not work well because of Ceph's consistency model. It generally won't let you read/write unless you have a quorum of monitors. I suspect what you really want is something more like a private ceph install (in your DC) and with something like owncloud running on top to give you a dropbox-like experience... sage On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Alek Storm wrote: > Anything? Would really appreciate any wisdom at all on this. > Thanks, > Alek > > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Alek Storm <alek.storm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > I'd like to use Ceph to solve two problems at my company: to be an S3 > mock for testing our application, and for sharing test artifacts in a > peer-to-peer fashion between developers. > > We currently store immutable binary blobs ranging from a few kB to > several hundred MB in S3, which means both integration testing and > most normal development is impossible when offline. Separately, we > share these binary blobs with each other through Dropbox (for local > tweaking; we like Dropbox's filesystem emulation) - unfortunately, as > we grow, this is becoming prohibitively expensive. > > I'd like to set up Ceph as follows: each developer runs a single OSD > on their personal machine. Each OSD has a complete replica of all > data; we'll keep the total size to a few gigs at most. To sync with > other boxes, the developer can connect to a Ceph monitor on our > corporate VPN whenever they happen to be online, in order to initiate > peering. Each developer, when testing, points their local stack at > their own OSD instance, instead of the AWS S3 endpoint. > > I know what I've described is a bit unusual - is Ceph the right tool > for this? Can you give any pointers to particular config settings or > places in the documentation I should be looking? I'm only just diving > in now; Ceph's flexibility can be a bit overwhelming. > > Thanks in advance, > Alek > > > > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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