Thank you. I was (obviously) very far from a Ceph expert, and I never had to implement it, in part because we could never get a satisfactory approach to this pr

Thank you. I was (obviously) very far from a Ceph expert, and I never had to implement it, in part because we could never get a satisfactory approach to this problem. Nobody I met with had an answer, and I couldn't find one after doing quite a bit of research. However, as usual with these kinds of things, simple document reading and keyword searches won't always find you the answer -- you need to understand the technology in depth to even understand which questions to ask. In an ideal world, we would have had multiple people to dedicate to building the kind of cluster they wanted to build. In the real world, after a dozen people left, I'm afraid they may well have ended up in a situation not much better than the University in question.