Hi, The general idea to preserve resilience but save space compared to replication. It costs more in terms of CPU and network. You will find a short introduction here : https://wiki.ceph.com/Planning/Blueprints/Dumpling/Erasure_encoding_as_a_storage_backend https://wiki.ceph.com/Planning/Blueprints/Firefly/Erasure_coded_storage_backend_%28step_3%29
For the next Ceph release Pyramid Codes will help reduce the bandwidth requirements https://wiki.ceph.com/Planning/Blueprints/Giant/Pyramid_Erasure_Code Cheers On 19/05/2014 13:52, [email protected] wrote: > Hi All, > > > > What exactly is erasure coding and why is it used in ceph ? I could not get > enough explanatory information from the documentation. > > > > > > Thanks > > Kumar > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, > proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it > in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any > other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, > electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail > and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for > the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance > with Accenture policy. > ______________________________________________________________________________________ > > www.accenture.com > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
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