Hello, I am running Ceph on a small cluster of 7 old computation nodes (p...@2.4 GHz P4, 2 GB RAM, 2*300 GB disk). I compare with NFS, GlusterFS and local disk for simple jobs like untarring Linux kernel source, building kernel, writing and reading in parallel on all nodes.
One of my personal favourite uses is to serve data with rtorrent from the distributed file system. I hope to use the memory on all the nodes as a shared file system cache. However, a few months ago neither GlusterFS or Ceph was stable enough for this. Regards, Jerker Nyberg. On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Roland Rabben wrote: > 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 daemons, slightly outdated docs and I hardly knew what the commands stated 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
