On Nov 15 2016, Randy Rue <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> I've been flailing on finding a way to replicate a large POSIX file
> system off site and found this project, unless I'm missing some
> dealbreaker it looks like S3QL is a great candidate for what we need.
>
> I've just spent some time reading as much of your documentation as I
> can find but have a few questions, forgive me if I missed this
> information:
> * What scale are folks running this at? Is a PB typical, unusual, or
> unheard of?

I haven't heard of it, i.e. I'm not aware of any positive or negative
results with that much data. I expect that it well strongly depend on
the number of files.

> * What back ends are you running it on? Standard S3 only or is IAS
> possible?

IAS is an option, cf. 
http://www.rath.org/s3ql-docs/backends.html#cmdoption-s3_backend-arg-ia.

> * What kind of GET/PUT traffic would a PB incur?

Whatever you upload/download, rounded-up to the smaller of (blocksize,
file-size), plus metadata upload/download on every mount/umount and
every --metadata-upload-interval seconds. How much that amounts to
depends on the number of files and the block size.

> Our use case would be
> as a DR replica for a PB space on-premise traffic would be almost all
> writes. But would deletes count as reads?

No.

> Is every disk I/O to the NFS
> export a PUT/GET, or are IOs somehow aggregated into less traffic on
> the S3 objects?

They are aggregated locally. By default, writes are committed when a
block has not been touched for 5 seconds, or when the maximum cache size
has been reached.

> * Do I understand correctly from the docs that snapshots are RW unless
> they're locked?

Yes.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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