On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Wido den Hollander wrote:
> On 03/05/2013 06:03 PM, Greg Farnum wrote:
> > This is a companion discussion to the blog post at 
> > http://ceph.com/dev-notes/cephfs-mds-status-discussion/ — go read that!
> >  
> > The short and slightly alternate version: I spent most of about two weeks 
> > working on bugs related to snapshots in the MDS, and we started realizing 
> > that we could probably do our first supported release of CephFS and the 
> > related infrastructure much sooner if we didn't need to support all of the 
> > whizbang features. (This isn't to say that the base feature set is stable 
> > now, but it's much closer than when you turn on some of the other things.) 
> > I'd like to get feedback from you in the community on what minimum 
> > supported feature set would prompt or allow you to start using CephFS in 
> > real environments — not what you'd *like* to see, but what you *need* to 
> > see. This will allow us at Inktank to prioritize more effectively and 
> > hopefully get out a supported release much more quickly! :)
> >  
> > The current proposed feature set is basically what's left over after we've 
> > trimmed off everything we can think to split off, but if any of the 
> > proposed included features are also particularly important or don't matter, 
> > be sure to mention them (NFS export in particular — it works right now but 
> > isn't in great shape due to NFS filehandle caching).
>  
> Great news! Although RBD and RADOS itself are already great, a lot of  
> applications would still require a shared filesystem.
>  
> Think about a (Cloud|Open)Stack environment with thousands of instances  
> running but also need some form of shared filesystem.
>  
> One thing I'm missing though is user-quotas, have they been discussed at  
> all and what would the work to implement those involve?
>  
> I know it would require a lot more tracking per file so it's not that  
> easy and would certainly not make it into a first release, but are they  
> on the roadmap at all?

Not at present. I think there are some tickets related to this in the tracker 
as feature requests, but CephFS needs more groundwork about multi-tenancy in 
general before we can do reasonable planning around a robust user quota 
feature. (Near-real-time hacks are possible now based around the rstats 
infrastructure and I believe somebody has built them, though I've never seen 
them myself.)
-Greg

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