Keep it simple is my approach. #1 If needed Add rudimentary HA with pacemaker.
http://linux-ha.org/wiki/Samba Cheers Wade On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:45 AM Alex Leake <a.m.d.le...@bath.ac.uk> 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. > > > Kind Regards, > Alex. > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >
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