On 05/13/2013 02:24 PM, Dennis Chen wrote:
Hi,
If I have an OSD attached by a FC SAN device with the connection like this:
OSD HBA-->FC Switch-->SAN storage device.
Then Map a LUN in the SAN to the OSD as its only disk device to save
data. if I have a client also has an HBA and the topology diagram looks
like:
osd client
------- ------- ------- -------
| HBA | | NIC | <---------------> | NIC | | HBA |
---+--- -------- ------- -------
\ /
\ /
\ /
\ --------------
| FC Switch |
--------------
|
SAN
Suppose the created LUN above for OSD can be accessed by both osd and
client though FC I/F, the question is:
if I create a rbd block device in osd and map it to client, make a file
system and mount it in client side, then create a file in the mounted
FS. The read/write operation followed for this file will transfer data
though ethernet path or FC path?
That will follow the Ethernet path.
I'm also trying to figure out why you would Ceph here and use RBD? If
the client has direct access to the FC, why not have the client access
that direcly?
Ceph makes sense when you are running it on multiple fully separated
machines, but not if you run it all one one FC SAN imho.
Wido
BRs,
Dennis
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