I have used Ceph for some time for evaluation on computional clusters. I administrate a small cluster (one rack) at a department at our university running MOSIX using NFS as a file server. I am very intrested in migrating to Ceph if stable enough and performance for our applications are better than NFS.
The main proprietary competitor is Panasas. Our university recently bought a rack for use with the university central computing resources. The other open source project I am looking at is GlusterFS, but I prefer the architecture of Ceph. I agree that it would be nice to have Ceph client in the kernel tree but maybe more important is to get packages for the major distributions (RHEL with clones etc) which in time, when Ceph stabilize and get more users, might be lifted into the actual distributions. Then putting client into kernel is only a small step. Regards, Jerker Nyberg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ceph-devel mailing list Ceph-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ceph-devel
