Lustre would be a better option for you if you want a production ready system. Ceph is not stable enough yet and cannot be trusted to serve production systems.
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Ananth Sarathy wrote: > > > Yea I know I can use a nas or San. I am not really asking about this as a > > use case on what the best way way to do it is but rather what the best > way > > to do use hdfs is it was decided that hdfs WAS the fileasystem you were > > going to use to serve lots of small files. > > In other words, "What is the best way to make this square peg fit in this > round hole?" > > You should probably be looking at something like Lustre or ceph.
