Re: [ceph-users] Some easy questions

2014-06-19 Thread Craig Lewis
> > >> Just to clarify. Suppose you insert an object into rados directly, you > won't be able to see that file > in cephfs anywhere, since it won't be listed in MDS. Correct? > > Meaning, you can start using CephFS+MDS at any point in time, but it will > only ever list objects/files > that were ins

Re: [ceph-users] Some easy questions

2014-06-19 Thread Gerard Toonstra
Thanks Craig, I learned a bit more in the meantime. On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Craig Lewis wrote: > > 3. You must use MDS from the start, because it's a metadata > > structure/directory that only gets populated when writing files through > > cephfs / FUSE. Otherwise, it doesn't even know

Re: [ceph-users] Some easy questions

2014-06-17 Thread Craig Lewis
> 3. You must use MDS from the start, because it's a metadata > structure/directory that only gets populated when writing files through > cephfs / FUSE. Otherwise, it doesn't even know about other objects and > therefore isn't visible on cephfs. > 4. MDS does not get updated when radosgw / S3 is us

[ceph-users] Some easy questions

2014-06-16 Thread Gerard Toonstra
Hello, I have some doubts about ceph and radosgw/S3 and I searched high and low, but couldn't find a solid answer. First, some statements on how I understand how ceph works for locating and writing objects. 1. Ceph uses the pool id and the object id to locate and store objects. 2. The MDS is opti