On 11/04/2014 10:02 AM, Sage Weil wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2014, Blair Bethwaite wrote: >> On 4 November 2014 01:50, Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> In the Ceph session at the OpenStack summit someone asked what the CephFS >>> survey results looked like. >> >> Thanks Sage, that was me! >> >>> Here's the link: >>> >>> https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-L5JV7WXL/ >>> >>> In short, people want >>> >>> fsck >>> multimds >>> snapshots >>> quotas >> >> TBH I'm a bit surprised by a couple of these and hope maybe you guys >> will apply a certain amount of filtering on this... >> >> fsck and quotas were there for me, but multimds and snapshots are what >> I'd consider "icing" features - they're nice to have but not on the >> critical path to using cephfs instead of e.g. nfs in a production >> setting. I'd have thought stuff like small file performance and >> gateway support was much more relevant to uptake and >> positive/pain-free UX. Interested to hear others rationale here. > > Yeah, I agree, and am taking the results with a grain of salt. I > think the results are heavily influenced by the order they were > originally listed (I whish surveymonkey would randomize is for each > person or something). > > fsck is a clear #1. Everybody wants multimds, but I think very few > actually need it at this point. We'll be merging a soft quota patch > shortly, and things like performance (adding the inline data support to > the kernel client, for instance) will probably compete with getting > snapshots working (as part of a larger subvolume infrastructure). That's > my guess at least; for now, we're really focused on fsck and hard > usability edges and haven't set priorities beyond that. > > We're definitely interested in hearing feedback on this strategy, and on > peoples' experiences with giant so far... > I think the approach is correct. Everybody I talk to wants to kick out their NFS server, but you don't need multi MDS for that. Active/Standby is just fine. Wido > sage > -- > 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 > -- Wido den Hollander 42on B.V. Ceph trainer and consultant Phone: +31 (0)20 700 9902 Skype: contact42on _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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