Re: [ceph-users] Concurrency in ceph

2014-11-18 Thread hp cre
BD is in and of itself a separate block device, not file > system). I would imagine OpenStack works in a similar fashion. > > -- > *From: *"hp cre" > *To: *"Gregory Farnum" > *Cc: *ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > *Sent: *Tuesday, November

Re: [ceph-users] Concurrency in ceph

2014-11-18 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:43 PM, hp cre wrote: > Ok thanks Greg. > But what openstack does, AFAIU, is use rbd devices directly, one for each > Vm instance, right? And that's how it supports live migrations on KVM, > etc.. Right? Openstack and similar cloud frameworks don't need to create vm >

Re: [ceph-users] Concurrency in ceph

2014-11-18 Thread Campbell, Bill
shion. - Original Message - From: "hp cre" To: "Gregory Farnum" Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 4:43:07 PM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Concurrency in ceph Ok thanks Greg. But what openstack does, AFAIU, is use rbd devices directly, one for each

Re: [ceph-users] Concurrency in ceph

2014-11-18 Thread hp cre
Ok thanks Greg. But what openstack does, AFAIU, is use rbd devices directly, one for each Vm instance, right? And that's how it supports live migrations on KVM, etc.. Right? Openstack and similar cloud frameworks don't need to create vm instances on filesystems, am I correct? On 18 Nov 2014 23

Re: [ceph-users] Concurrency in ceph

2014-11-18 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:26 PM, hp cre wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm new to ceph but been working with proprietary clustered filesystem for > quite some time. > > I almost understand how ceph works, but have a couple of questions which > have been asked before here, but i didn't understand t

[ceph-users] Concurrency in ceph

2014-11-18 Thread hp cre
Hello everyone, I'm new to ceph but been working with proprietary clustered filesystem for quite some time. I almost understand how ceph works, but have a couple of questions which have been asked before here, but i didn't understand the answer. In the closed source world, we use clustered fi