Re: [ceph-users] Multicast communication compuverde

2019-02-08 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 11:49:28AM +0200, Maged Mokhtar wrote: > It could be used for sending cluster maps or other configuration in a > push model, i believe corosync uses this by default. For use in sending > actual data during write ops, a primary osd can send to its replicas, > they do not h

Re: [ceph-users] Multicast communication compuverde

2019-02-06 Thread Maged Mokhtar
On 06/02/2019 11:14, Marc Roos wrote: Yes indeed, but for osd's writing the replication or erasure objects you get sort of parrallel processing not? Multicast traffic from storage has a point in things like the old Windows provisioning software Ghost where you could netboot a room full och c

Re: [ceph-users] Multicast communication compuverde

2019-02-06 Thread Janne Johansson
For EC coded stuff,at 10+4 with 13 others needing data apart from the primary, they are specifically NOT getting the same data, they are getting either 1/10th of the pieces, or one of the 4 different checksums, so it would be nasty to send full data to all OSDs expecting a 14th of the data. Den o

Re: [ceph-users] Multicast communication compuverde

2019-02-06 Thread Burkhard Linke
Hi, we have a compuverde cluster, and AFAIK it uses multicast for node discovery, not for data distribution. If you need more information, feel free to contact me either by email or via IRC (-> Be-El). Regards, Burkhard ___ ceph-users mailin

Re: [ceph-users] Multicast communication compuverde

2019-02-06 Thread Marc Roos
Yes indeed, but for osd's writing the replication or erasure objects you get sort of parrallel processing not? Multicast traffic from storage has a point in things like the old Windows provisioning software Ghost where you could netboot a room full och computers, have them listen to a mcast

Re: [ceph-users] Multicast communication compuverde

2019-02-06 Thread Janne Johansson
Multicast traffic from storage has a point in things like the old Windows provisioning software Ghost where you could netboot a room full och computers, have them listen to a mcast stream of the same data/image and all apply it at the same time, and perhaps re-sync potentially missing stuff at the

[ceph-users] Multicast communication compuverde

2019-02-05 Thread Marc Roos
I am still testing with ceph mostly, so my apologies for bringing up something totally useless. But I just had a chat about compuverde storage. They seem to implement multicast in a scale out solution. I was wondering if there is any experience here with compuverde and how it compared to ce