Hi, In march 2013 Greg wrote an excellent blog posting regarding the (then) current status of MDS/CephFS and the plans for going forward with development.
http://ceph.com/dev-notes/cephfs-mds-status-discussion/ Since then, I understand progress has been slow, and Greg confirmed that he didn't want to commit to any release date yet, when I asked him for an update earlier this year. CephFS appears to be a more or less working product, does receive stability fixes every now and then, but I don't think Inktank would call it production ready. So my question is: I would like to use Ceph as a storage for files, as a fileserver or at least as a backend to my fileserver. What is the recommended way to do this? A more or less obvious alternative for CephFS would be to simply create a huge RBD and have a separate file server (running NFS / Samba / whatever) use that block device as backend. Just put a regular FS on top of the RBD and use it that way. Clients wouldn't really have any of the real performance and resilience benefits that Ceph could offer though, because the (single machine?) file server is now the bottleneck. Any advice / best practice would be greatly appreciated. Any real-world experience with current CephFS as well. Kind regards, Erik. _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
