A single image can be as large as you want, or at least as large as your
pool size.
But you want to take into consideration the maximum size allowed by the
filesystem on top of your volume and the maximum size supported by you OS
vendor if any.

And even if supported and even considered the resiliency of most linux
filesystems, I do not think having a filesystem of hundreds of TB or even
PB would be a good choice. Issues and errors just happen and you do not
want to put all your eggs in the same basket.

Also keep in mind that Ceph is a distributed storage platform, hence
performance is mainly achieved by parallel accesses to the cluster. So you
want many files accessed simultaneously on many volumes to maximize
performance.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Ops Cloud <o...@19cloud.net> wrote:

>
> We want to run a backup server, which has huge storage as backend.
> If we use rbd client to mount a block storage from ceph, for a single
> image, how large can it be? xxx TB or PB?
>
> Thank you.
>
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