On 12/15/2015 11:45 AM, Alex Leake wrote: > Good Morning, > > > I have a production Ceph cluster at the University I work at, which runs > brilliantly. > > > However, I'd like your advice on the best way of sharing CIFS / SMB from > Ceph. So far I have three ideas: > > 1. Use a server as a head node, with an RBD mapped, then just export > with samba > 2. Use a platform like OpenStack / KVM to host VMs that reside on Ceph > RBDs - and use those to export filesystems (similar to 1.) > 3. Use a the S3 functionality of the RADOS gateway in conjunction with > tools like SoftNAS (https://www.softnas.com/wp/) > > They all seem a little inefficient though, especially the 2nd option. > > Any help would be welcomed, I think it's an interesting problem. >
Are you sure you need file sharing? ownCloud for example now has native RADOS support using phprados. Isn't ownCloud something that could work? Talking native RADOS is always the best. Wido > > Kind Regards, > Alex. > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > -- Wido den Hollander 42on B.V. Ceph trainer and consultant Phone: +31 (0)20 700 9902 Skype: contact42on _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
