Am 26.05.2014 15:52, schrieb Listas@Adminlinux: > Thanks Pieter! > > I tried using OCFS2 over DRBD, but was not satisfied. I was being affected by > various bugs in OCFS2. But Oracle was not committed to solving them. >
When did you try it? We use such a setup with ocfs2 ontop of rbd with 3.10.40 but also hit bugs with earlier kernel versions. Which Bugs did you hit? I noticed some ocfs2 changes in changelog between 3.10.20 and 3.10.40... I also did online resize of rbd image and then online resize of ocfs2 without problems. > > Em 24-05-2014 09:14, Pieter Koorts escreveu: >> If looking for a DRBD alternative and not wanting to use CephFS is it >> not possible to just use something like OCFS2 or GFS on top of a RDB >> block device and all worker nodes accessing it via GFS or OCFS2 >> (obviously with write-through mode)? >> >> Would this method not present some advantages over DRBD? >> >> DRBD has its uses and will never go away but it does have limited >> scalability in the general sense. >> >>>> Hi ! >>>> >>>> I have failover clusters for some aplications. Generally with 2 members >>>> configured with Ubuntu + Drbd + Ext4. For example, my IMAP cluster works >>>> fine with ~ 50k email accounts and my HTTP cluster hosts ~2k sites. >>>> >>> My mailbox servers are also multiple DRBD based cluster pairs. >>> For performance in fully redundant storage there is isn't anything better >>> (in the OSS, generic hardware section at least). >>> >>>> See design here:http://adminlinux.com.br/cluster_design.txt >>>> >>>> I would like to provide load balancing instead of just failover. So, I >>>> would like to use a distributed architecture of the filesystem. As we >>>> know, Ext4 isn't a distributed filesystem. So wish to use Ceph in my >>>> clusters. >>>> >>> You will find that all cluster/distributed filesystems have severe >>> performance shortcomings when compared to something like Ext4. >>> >>> On top of that, CephFS isn't ready for production as the MDS isn't HA. >>> >>> A potential middle way might be to use Ceph/RBD volumes formatted in Ext4. >>> That doesn't give you shared access, but it will allow you to separate >>> storage and compute nodes, so when one compute node becomes busy, mount >>> that volume from a more powerful compute node instead. >>> >>> That all said, I can't see any way and reason to replace my mailbox DRBD >>> clusters with Ceph in the foreseeable future. >>> To get similar performance/reliability to DRBD I would have to spend 3-4 >>> times the money. >>> >>> Where Ceph/RBD works well is situations where you can't fit the compute >>> needs into a storage node (as required with DRBD) and where you want to >>> access things from multiple compute nodes, primarily for migration >>> purposes. >>> In short, as a shared storage for VMs. >>> >>>> Any suggestions for design of the cluster with Ubuntu+Ceph? >>>> >>>> I built a simple cluster of 2 servers to test simultaneous reading and >>>> writing with Ceph. My conf: http://adminlinux.com.br/ceph_conf.txt >>>> >>> Again, CephFS isn't ready for production, but other than that I know very >>> little about it as I don't use it. >>> However your version of Ceph is severely outdated, you really should be >>> looking at something more recent to rule out you're experience long fixed >>> bugs. The same goes for your entire setup and kernel. >>> >>> Also Ceph only starts to perform decently with many OSDs (disks) and >>> the journals on SSDs instead of being on the same disk. >>> Think DRBD AL metadata-internal, but with MUCH more impact. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Christian >>>> But in my simultaneous benchmarks found errors in reading and writing. I >>>> ran "iozone -t 5 -r 4k -s 2m" simultaneously on both servers in the >>>> cluster. The performance was poor and had errors like this: >>>> >>>> Error in file: Found ?0? Expecting ?6d6d6d6d6d6d6d6d? addr b6600000 >>>> Error in file: Position 1060864 >>>> Record # 259 Record size 4 kb >>>> where b6600000 loop 0 >>>> >>>> Performance graphs of benchmark: http://adminlinux.com.br/ceph_bench.html >>>> >>>> Can you help me find what I did wrong? >>>> -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Florian Wiessner Smart Weblications GmbH Martinsberger Str. 1 D-95119 Naila fon.: +49 9282 9638 200 fax.: +49 9282 9638 205 24/7: +49 900 144 000 00 - 0,99 EUR/Min* http://www.smart-weblications.de -- Sitz der Gesellschaft: Naila Geschäftsführer: Florian Wiessner HRB-Nr.: HRB 3840 Amtsgericht Hof *aus dem dt. Festnetz, ggf. abweichende Preise aus dem Mobilfunknetz _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
