On Friday, January 17, 2014, Iban Cabrillo <cabri...@ifca.unican.es> wrote:

> Dear,
>   we are studying the possibility to migrate our FS in the next year to
> cephfs. I know that it is not prepare for production environments yet, but
> we are planning to play with it in the next months deploying a basic
> testbed.
>   Reading the documentation, I see 3 mons, 1 mds and several ods's (both
> in physical machines..I have understood). Is this true?
>   On the other hand I do not understand the fail-over mechanism for
> clients when have mounted a FS, looking at documentation :
>
>    *ceph-fuse* [ -m *monaddr*:*port* ] *mountpoint* [ *fuse options* ]
> You have to specify (hardcode) the "*monaddr*:*port", if this mon (ip) is
> down, what happen, Do you lost the fs on that node?, or there is a generic
> dns-rrd implementation for mons??*
>

You can actually specify a list of mons, and once connected to any mon the
client fetches the full list and will reconnect to them if the one it is
currently talking to goes down.



>
> *  Is there any implementation for "tiering" or "HSM" at software level, I
> mean, can I mix different type of disk (ssds and SATA) on diferent pools,
> and migrate data between them automatically (most used, size, last time
> access) *
>

Sadly no. We're starting to play in this space in our upcoming Firefly
release with "cache pools", but it's not quite done yet.
-Greg


>
>
>
> *Please could anyone clarify to me this point?*
>
> *Regards, I*
>
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> Iban Cabrillo Bartolome
> Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (IFCA)
> Santander, Spain
> Tel: +34942200969
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> los inteligentes están llenos de dudas*"
>


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