Hi Stephan, thanks for a quick reply. We are not using windows, so that wouldn't be a problem. It would be interesting to hear if other people are considering and, or using Ceph in production.
Also what size clusters have been tested so far? Roland 2009/2/26 Stephan Menzel <stephan.men...@gmx.eu>: > 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 slightly outdated docs and I hardly knew what the commands stated in the wiki 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 > -- Roland Rabben Jotta AS Cell: +47 90 85 85 39 Email: rol...@jotta.no ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
