Hello Sage, I have a few questions regarding Ceph. Have not tried Ceph so far, the cluster I have keeps important data and I do not have spare machines for testing. Currently I use a different cluster-based filesystem, but I plan to try Ceph as soon as it is production ready. The roadmap section on Ceph website does not seem to be updated for a long time. To be more precise, I am curious about two things:
1) roughly, when do you expect first production release of Ceph (I know it depends on btrfs progress as well)? It is possible that a similar question appeared on this forum already, but I mean rougly, next year, in next two years...? 2) Any plans for pNFS filesystem frontend? I have read all the Ceph and Rados papers, and the project is very ambitious about performance and features. But one thing I am missing is multi-platform support. This is the case for most cluster-based storage solution on the market (non-parallel workarounds with Samba or NFS heads does not count). Ceph servers would probably be tightly coupled with btrfs and thus with Linux, but what about clients? I know there is (was) FUSE based Ceph client, but pNFS would be more elegant/compatible and it would also remove the burden of client development from Ceph developers, since pNFS might become de-facto standard and might be supported on many platforms including Windows (which, to the best of my knowledge, does not have any cluster-based filesystem client to date - with the exception of Boxwood experiment). If that is the case then pNFS (or NFSv4.1 for that matter) clients might be available from various differrent vendors for various operating systems and people can take advantage of Ceph on differrent platforms, not only Linux. Thanks for your answers Ales Blaha ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Ceph-devel mailing list Ceph-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ceph-devel
