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That's something I was thinking about. This thing has to go down occasionally for patches, service, maintenance. 500TB is alot to trust to a single box or two.
by sathackr 9y ago
That's something I was thinking about. This thing has to go down occasionally for patches, service, maintenance. 500TB is alot to trust to a single box or two.
I'm building a Ceph cluster right now, about the same size as the one in the article, except with 9x36 drive chassis.
- KaiserPro 9y agoClustered filesystems just means that one machine can wreak havock across many domains of fun. (I used early lustre, I know from fun experience) ceph seems nice, but appears to be very CPU hungry and not very fast. Seems easier to have sharded vanilla linux file servers. It requires a decent asset manager, but once you have that, backups and rebalancing become trivial.