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With Ceph, and I imagine other similar solutions, you can skip RAID altogether and manage redundancy at higher level over plain disks. RAID makes sense if you s
by zokier 3y ago
With Ceph, and I imagine other similar solutions, you can skip RAID altogether and manage redundancy at higher level over plain disks. RAID makes sense if you specifically want to have conventional filesystem on top of it, but for object storage its not necessary.
- simonjgreen 3y agoYou're applying the same principles, just at the object level rather than the filesystem level. You still have to choose a redundancy pattern. But I do agree with you, it does make the problem significantly easier/different. ZFS and Ceph are marvelous creations.