Re: [Beowulf] CephFS

2015-04-21 Thread Brendan Moloney
Hi, A bit late to the discussion, but I am currently setting up Ceph for our cluster storage and wanted to throw in my 2 cents. It is important to realize that Ceph provides many layers of storage services. At the lowest level we have the object storage layer (RADOS) which can be accessed through

Re: [Beowulf] CephFS

2015-04-15 Thread Olli-Pekka Lehto
On 15 Apr 2015, at 06:50, Mark Hahn wrote: >> In an environment that needs to adapt to evolving user needs, trading some >> performance for the flexibility that Ceph offers does not seem like a bad >> deal. > > it would be appreciated if you could be a bit more specific. what kind of > perform

Re: [Beowulf] CephFS

2015-04-14 Thread Mark Hahn
In an environment that needs to adapt to evolving user needs, trading some performance for the flexibility that Ceph offers does not seem like a bad deal. it would be appreciated if you could be a bit more specific. what kind of performance, what kind of flexibility? thanks, mark hahn. _

Re: [Beowulf] CephFS

2015-04-09 Thread Prentice Bisbal
On 04/09/2015 11:24 AM, Tom Harvill wrote: Hello, Question: is anyone on this list using CephFS in 'production'? If so, what are you using it for (ie. scratch/tmp, archive, homedirs)? In our setup we use NFS shared ZFS for /home, Lustre for /work (performance-oriented shared fs), and job-s

Re: [Beowulf] CephFS

2015-04-09 Thread Joe Landman
On 04/09/2015 11:24 AM, Tom Harvill wrote: Hello, Question: is anyone on this list using CephFS in 'production'? If so, what are you using it for (ie. scratch/tmp, archive, homedirs)? In our setup we use NFS shared ZFS for /home, Lustre for /work (performance-oriented shared fs), and job-spec

Re: [Beowulf] CephFS

2015-04-09 Thread Scott Atchley
No, but you might find this interesting: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2538562 On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Tom Harvill wrote: > > Hello, > > Question: is anyone on this list using CephFS in 'production'? If so, > what are you using > it for (ie. scratch/tmp, archive, homedirs)? In ou

[Beowulf] CephFS

2015-04-09 Thread Tom Harvill
Hello, Question: is anyone on this list using CephFS in 'production'? If so, what are you using it for (ie. scratch/tmp, archive, homedirs)? In our setup we use NFS shared ZFS for /home, Lustre for /work (performance-oriented shared fs), and job-specific tmp on the worker nodes local disk.