Hello,

If I'm storing large VM images on Ceph RDB, and I have OSD journals on SSD,
should I _not_ be using a copy on write file system on the OSDs?  I read
that large VM images don't play well with COW (e.g. btrfs) [1].  Does Ceph
improve this situation? Would btrfs outperform non-cow filesystems in this
setting?

Also, I'm considering placing my OSD journals on f2fs-formatted partitions
on my Samsung SSDs for hardware resiliency (Samsung created both my SSDs
and f2fs) [2].  F2FS uses copy on write [3].  Has anyone ever tried this?
Thoughts?

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Btrfs#Copy-On-Write_.28CoW.29
[2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast12/tech/full_papers/Min.pdf
[3] http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r27846667-

Thanks,
Joshua
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