Hello everyone! After years of running several ZFS pools on a home server and several disk failures along the way, I've decided that my current home storage setup stinks. So far there hasn't been any data loss, but recovering/"resilvering" a ZFS pool after a disk failure is a nail-biting experience. I also think the way things are set up now isn't making the best use of all the disks attached to the server; they were acquired over time instead of all at once, so I've got 4 4-disk raidz1 pools, each in their own enclosures. If any enclosure dies, all that pool's data is lost. Despite having a total of 16 disks in use for storage, the entire system can only "safely" lose one disk before there's a risk of a second failure taking a bunch of data with it. I'd like to ask the list's opinions on running a Ceph cluster in a home environment as a filer using cheap, low-power systems. I don't have any expectations for high performance (this will be built on a gigabit network, and just used for backups and streaming videos, music, etc. for two people); the main concern is resiliency if one or two disks fail, and the secondary concern is having a decent usable storage capacity. Being able to slowly add capacity to the cluster one disk at a time is a very appealing bonus. I'm interested in using these things as OSDs (and hopefully monitors and metadata servers): https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/ They're about $50 each, can boot from MicroSD or eMMC flash (basically an SSD with a custom connector), and have one SATA port. They have 8-core 32-bit CPUs, 2GB of RAM and a gigabit ethernet port. Four of them (including disks) can run off a single 12V/8A power adapter (basically 100 watts per set of 4). The obvious appeal is price, plus they're stackable so they'd be easy to hide away in a closet. Is it feasible for these to work as OSDs at all? The Ceph hardware recommendations page suggests OSDs need 1GB per TB of space, so does this mean these wouldn't be suitable with, say, a 4TB or 8TB disk? Or would they work, but just more slowly? Pushing my luck further (assuming the HC2 can handle OSD duties at all), is that enough muscle to run the monitor and/or metadata servers? Should monitors and MDS's be run separately, or can/should they piggyback on hosts running OSDs? I'd be perfectly happy with a setup like this even if it could only achieve speeds in the 20-30MB/sec range. Is this a dumb idea, or could it actually work? Are there any other recommendations among Ceph users for low-end hardware to cobble together a working cluster? Any feedback is sincerely appreciated. Thanks! _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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