I agree with this, just because you can doesn't mean you should. It will
likely be significantly less painful to upgrade the infrastructure to
support doing this the more-correct way, vs. trying to layer swift on top
of cephfs. I say this having a lot of personal experience with Swift at
extremely large scales.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 7:34 AM Etienne Menguy <etienne.men...@ubisoft.com>
wrote:

> > but why not CephFS?
> You don't want to offer distributed storage on top of distributed storage.
> You can't compare rgw and openstack swift, swift also takes care of data
> storage ( the openstack swift proxy is "similar" to rgw ).
>
> For sure you could use 'tricks' like a single replica on swift or ceph,
> but don't expect great performance. It sounds like a terrible idea.
> Also, it's probably easier to update your infrastructure rather than
> deploy/learn/maintain openstack swift.
>
> Étienne
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kees Meijs | Nefos <k...@nefos.nl>
> > Sent: jeudi 9 juin 2022 13:43
> > To: Etienne Menguy <etienne.men...@ubisoft.com>
> > Cc: ceph-users@ceph.io
> > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] OpenStack Swift on top of CephFS
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well, there's a Ceph implementation in production already with a lot of
> > storage. Local storage is small and limited.
> >
> > Customers ask for Swift in addition to the OpenStack environment, so it
> > makes sense to combine both with regard to Swift.
> >
> > Obviously it's best to use Keystone integration with Ceph RGW and
> integrate
> > on that level, but both Ceph and OpenStack implementations aren't new
> > enough to do that.
> >
> > So, I was wondering if someone tried to use CephFS as a backend for
> Swift.
> > An alternative would be RBD with a filesystem on top but why not CephFS?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kees
> >
> > On 09-06-2022 13:23, Etienne Menguy wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > You should probably explain your need, why do you want to use cephfs
> > rather than local storage?
> > >
> > > Étienne
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