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Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Directly addressing files on individual OSD
On 16.03.2017 08:26, Youssef Eldakar wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Anthony, and I am sorry my question did not give
> sufficient background.
>
> This is the cluster behind archive.bibalex.
On 16.03.2017 08:26, Youssef Eldakar wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Anthony, and I am sorry my question did not give
sufficient background.
This is the cluster behind archive.bibalex.org. Storage nodes keep archived
webpages as multi-member GZIP files on the disks, which are formatted using XFS
: Youssef Eldakar
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 09:26
To: Anthony D'Atri; ceph-users@lists.ceph.com
Subject: RE: [ceph-users] Directly addressing files on individual OSD
Thanks for the reply, Anthony, and I am sorry my question did not give
sufficient background.
This is the cluster b
[ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] on behalf of Anthony
D'Atri [a...@dreamsnake.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 01:37
To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com
Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Directly addressing files on individual OSD
As I parse Youssef’s message, I believe there are some misconceptions
As I parse Youssef’s message, I believe there are some misconceptions. It
might help if you could give a bit more info on what your existing ‘cluster’ is
running. NFS? CIFS/SMB? Something else?
1) Ceph regularly runs scrubs to ensure that all copies of data are consistent.
The checksumming
We currently run a commodity cluster that supports a few petabytes of data.
Each node in the cluster has 4 drives, currently mounted as /0 through /3. We
have been researching alternatives for managing the storage, Ceph being one
possibility, iRODS being another. For preservation purposes, we wo
