On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Milosz Tanski <mil...@adfin.com> wrote:
> Loic,
>
> The writeup has been helpful.
>
> What I'm curious about (and hasn't been mentioned) is can we use
> erasure with CephFS? What steps have to be taken in order to setup
> erasure coding for CephFS?

Lots. CephFS takes advantage of almost every RADOS capability, and EC
pools support only a subset of that. We haven't even whiteboarded what
would be required at this time. If using a cache pool is a feasible
option that would be a lot easier, but we haven't evaluated it yet.
-Greg
Software Engineer #42 @ http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com

>
> In our case we'd like to take advantage of the savings since a large
> chunk of our data is written once, read many times, after a while
> seldom accessed. It looks like by default MDS alredy sets default
> pools for data and metadata. So I'm guessing this requires some
> preparation in advance.
>
> Best,
> - Milosz
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Loic Dachary <l...@dachary.org> wrote:
>> Hi Ceph,
>>
>> This month Ceph User Committee meeting was about:
>>
>>     Tiering, erasure code
>>     Using http://tracker.ceph.com/
>>     CephFS
>>     Miscellaneous
>>
>> You will find an executive summary at:
>>
>>    
>> https://wiki.ceph.com/Community/Meetings/Ceph_User_Committee_meeting_2014-04-03
>>
>> The full log of the IRC conversation is also included to provide more 
>> context when needed. Feel free to edit if you see a mistake.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
>>
>
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