Hello All,
I have a HW RAID based 240 TB data pool with about 200 million files for
users in a scientific institution. Data sizes range from tiny parameter
files for scientific calculations and experiments to huge images of
brain scans. There are group directories, home directories, Windows
roaming profile directories organized in ZFS pools on Solaris operating
systems, exported via NFS and Samba to Linux, macOS, and Windows clients.
I would like to switch to CephFS because of the flexibility and
expandability but I cannot find any recommendations for which storage
backend would be suitable for all the functionality we have.
Since I like the features of ZFS like immediate snapshots of very large
data pools, quotas for each file system within hierarchical data trees
and dynamic expandability by simply adding new disks or disk images
without manual resizing would it be a good idea to create RBD images,
map them onto the file servers and create zpools on the mapped images? I
know that ZFS best works with raw disks but maybe a RBD image is close
enough to a raw disk?
Or would CephFS be the way to go? Can there be multiple CephFS pools for
the group data folders and for the user's home directory folders for
example or do I have to have everything in one single file space?
Maybe someone can share his or her field experience?
Thank you very much.
Best regards
Willi
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