Re: [ceph-users] quick questions about a 5-node homelab setup

2019-01-22 Thread Janne Johansson
Den tis 22 jan. 2019 kl 00:50 skrev Brian Topping : > > I've scrounged up 5 old Atom Supermicro nodes and would like to run them > > 365/7 for limited production as RBD with Bluestore (ideally latest 13.2.4 > > Mimic), triple copy redundancy. Underlying OS is a Debian 9 64 bit, minimal > > insta

Re: [ceph-users] quick questions about a 5-node homelab setup

2019-01-21 Thread Brian Topping
> On Jan 18, 2019, at 3:48 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > (Crossposting this from Reddit /r/ceph , since likely to have more technical > audience present here). > > I've scrounged up 5 old Atom Supermicro nodes and would like to run them > 365/7 for limited production as RBD with Bluestore (ide

Re: [ceph-users] quick questions about a 5-node homelab setup

2019-01-21 Thread Janne Johansson
Den fre 18 jan. 2019 kl 12:42 skrev Robert Sander : > > Assuming BlueStore is too fat for my crappy nodes, do I need to go to > > FileStore? If yes, then with xfs as the file system? Journal on the SSD as > > a directory, then? > > Journal for FileStore is also a block device. It can be a file

Re: [ceph-users] quick questions about a 5-node homelab setup

2019-01-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:42:21PM +0100, Robert Sander wrote: > On 18.01.19 11:48, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > OSD on every node (Bluestore), journal on SSD (do I need a directory, or a > > dedicated partition? How large, assuming 2 TB and 4 TB Bluestore HDDs?) > > You need a partition on the SSD

Re: [ceph-users] quick questions about a 5-node homelab setup

2019-01-18 Thread Robert Sander
On 18.01.19 11:48, Eugen Leitl wrote: > OSD on every node (Bluestore), journal on SSD (do I need a directory, or a > dedicated partition? How large, assuming 2 TB and 4 TB Bluestore HDDs?) You need a partition on the SSD for the block.db (it's not a journal anymore with blustore). You should loo

[ceph-users] quick questions about a 5-node homelab setup

2019-01-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
(Crossposting this from Reddit /r/ceph , since likely to have more technical audience present here). I've scrounged up 5 old Atom Supermicro nodes and would like to run them 365/7 for limited production as RBD with Bluestore (ideally latest 13.2.4 Mimic), triple copy redundancy. Underlying OS