Hi Cephers, Our university could deploy ceph. The goal is to store datas for research laboratories (non-HPC) . To do this, we plan to use Ceph with RBD (mount block device) from a NFS ( or CIFS ) server (ceph client) to workstations in laboratories. According to our tests, the OS (ubuntu or centos...) that map the RBD block implements file system write cache (vm.dirty_ratio, etc ...). In that case, the NFS server will always perform writes to workstations whereas it has not finished writing datas to Ceph cluster - a nd regardless of whether the RBD cache is enabled or not in the config [client] section.
My questions: 1. Does the activation of RBD cache is useful only when it combines Virtuals Machnies (where QEMU can access an image as a virtual block device directly via librbd) ? 2. Is it common to use Ceph, with RBD to share network file systems ? 3. And if so, what are the recommendations concerning the OS cache ? Thanks a lot. Stephane. -- Université de Lorraine Stéphane DUGRAVOT - Direction du numérique - Infrastructure Jabber : stephane.dugra...@univ-lorraine.fr Tél.: +33 3 83 68 20 98
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