Re: [ceph-users] Red Hat to acquire Inktank

2014-04-30 Thread Alex Crow
On 30/04/14 18:05, Mike Hanby wrote: Congrats, any possible conflict with RedHat's earlier acquisition of GlusterFS? They are similar projects but with slightly different targets. I guess with Ceph+Openstack and Gluster+[RHEV|Ovirt] as natural partners. That said I'd love to see Ceph+[RHEV|

Re: [ceph-users] qemu + rbd block driver with cache=writeback, is live migration safe ?

2014-04-12 Thread Alex Crow
Hi. I've read in many places that you should never use writeback on any kind of shared storage. Caching is better dealt with on the storage side anyway as you have hopefully provided resilience there. In fact if your SAN/NAS is good enough it's supposed to be best to use "none" as the caching

Re: [ceph-users] CephFS posix ACLs

2014-01-21 Thread Alex Crow
Hi, Many thanks for this. Cheers Alex Original Message *Subject:* Re: [ceph-users] CephFS posix ACLs *Date:* Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:47:37 +0800 *From:* Yan, Zheng *To:* Alex Crow *CC:* ceph-users@lists.ceph.com that code is already in test branch of ceph-client, I think it will go

[ceph-users] CephFS posix ACLs

2014-01-21 Thread Alex Crow
Hi list, I've noticed that a patch was submitted in October last year to enable POSIX ACLs in cephfs, but things have gone very quiet on that front recently. We're looking to use cephfs in our organisation for resilient storage of documents, but without ACLs we would have some issues. Are th