Hi Roland, > I have some questions about the state of the project. Do you have any > information about people using ceph in production or near production > environments? What are your experiences so far?
Well, I've been investigating ceph about 4 months ago and thought about using it in production. Those thoughts are still there but I encountered too many problems back then to actually settle for it. Those included inability to readstart a shut down cluster (should be fixed by now) and the fact that I didn't actually relly know what I'm doing. Lots of abbrevations and daemons, slightly outdated docs and I hardly knew what the commands stated in the wiki actually do. I've also looked at an alternative (OpenAFS) but found it terribly complicated and badly documented to I turned away with slight disgust. One of the most important reasons why it looks like I can't use it today is quite sad. It's the lack of windows support. I'm working on a cross platform project and unfortunately windows is a must. Roland, if you don't need windows, give ceph a shot. It's worth it. Stephan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Ceph-devel mailing list Ceph-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ceph-devel
