Re: [ceph-users] ceph primetime

2014-01-05 Thread Keith Brown
Thanks John. I am planning to use it in production as a filesystem. We have close to 350TB of data and I don't want it to be in jeopardy. When looking at the documentation, I see in bold stating the filesystem should be used for production data so I was concerned. I suppose I will wait a bit long

Re: [ceph-users] ceph primetime

2013-12-30 Thread John Wilkins
Ceph is more than just a file system. The storage cluster provides a native API for object storage, which is the core of Ceph. Most production systems use the Ceph Block Device (as a backend for OpenStack, CloudStack, and other cloud platforms) or Ceph Object Storage (S3 and Swift APIs). There are

[ceph-users] ceph primetime

2013-12-26 Thread Keith Brown
Hello, We are thinking of deploying a distributed filesystem for our lab. At the moment we are using Dell storage for a 20 node computational cluster. We are having many bottlenecks in storage i/o. We are interesting in Lustre, XtremeFS, and Ceph. It seems Ceph isn't ready for production accordin