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In defense of ceph the documentation is fantastic and ceph clusters have only gotten easier toanage with every release. I am a homelabber, not a sysadmin and I
by sekh60 9y ago
In defense of ceph the documentation is fantastic and ceph clusters have only gotten easier toanage with every release. I am a homelabber, not a sysadmin and I run a cluster and have only run into one or two issues that the docs or patch notes didn't cover. Also the mailing list is incredibly friendly and helpful. The IRC channel is not as useful iny experience though, seems like with many there are a ton of idlers.
One does need to keep up with the release notes, mainly for the past couple releases, especially with the latest release, luminous which marked stable bluestore as a more performance alternative to filestore.
- saganus 9y agoI don't even think Ceph is at fault here, since they are not the ones making a critical piece of infrastructure be the responsibility of unpaid volunteers. Even if said volunteers where seasoned sysadmins, I don't think they should be stressing over something so critical while being unpaid. Obviously you don't always get to be paid in money. Sometimes you feel like doing it for the greater good, or because you like the institution, or whatever the reason. However I still think as a university you should not rely on unpaid staff to handle critical systems because it's not a nice thing to do. I don't think most people enjoy stressing over a hobby.