Hi. Unless there is plans for going to Petabyte scale with it - then I really dont see the benefits of getting CephFS involved over just an RBD image with a VM running standard samba on top. More performant and less complexity to handle - zero gains (by my book) Jesper > Hi, > > I am planning to create a new 3 node ceph storage cluster. > > I will be using Cephfs + with samba for max 10 clients for upload and > download. > > Storage Node HW is Intel Xeon E5v2 8 core single Proc, 32GB RAM and 10Gb > Nic 2 nos., 6TB SATA HDD 24 Nos. each node, OS separate SSD disk. > > Earlier I have tested orchestration using ceph-deploy in the test setup. > now, is there any other alternative to ceph-deploy? > > Can I restrict folder access to the user using cephfs + vfs samba or > should > I use ceph client + samba? > > Ubuntu or Centos? > > Any block size consideration for object size, metadata when using cephfs? > > Idea or suggestion from existing users. I am also going to start to > explore > all the above. > > regards > Amudhan > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx