Agreed Multi-MDS is a nice to have but not required for full production use. TBH stability and recovery will win any IT person dealing with filesystems. On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Mariusz Gronczewski <mariusz.gronczewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:36:07 +1100, Blair Bethwaite > <blair.bethwaite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > > Those are related; if small file performance will be enough for one > MDS to handle high load with a lot of small files (typical case of > webserver), having multiple acive MDS will be less of a priority; > > And if someone currently have OSD on bunch of relatively weak nodes, > again, having active-active setup with MDS will be more interesting to > him than someone that can just buy new fast machine for it. > > > -- > Mariusz Gronczewski, Administrator > > Efigence S. A. > ul. Wołoska 9a, 02-583 Warszawa > T: [+48] 22 380 13 13 > F: [+48] 22 380 13 14 > E: mariusz.gronczewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:mariusz.gronczewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > -- Follow Me: @Scottix http://about.me/scottix Scottix@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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