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ZFS and Ceph is apples to oranges. ZFS is scoped to a single host, Ceph can span data centers.
by anonfordays 2y ago
ZFS and Ceph is apples to oranges. ZFS is scoped to a single host, Ceph can span data centers.
- ComputerGuru 2y agoIt’s very possible to run a light/small layer on top of ZFS (either userspace daemon or via FUSE) to get you most of the way to scaling ZFS-backed object storage within or across data centers depending on what specific availability metrics you need.
- anonfordays 2y agoThat's true for any filesystem, not specific to ZFS. ZFS is not a clustered or multi-host filesystem.
- seabrookmx 2y agoWhat does this light/small layer look like? In my experience you need something like GlusterFS which I wouldn't call "light".
- throw0101b 2y ago> ZFS and Ceph is apples to oranges. Oxide is shipping an on-prem 'cloud appliance'. From the customer's/user's perspective of calling an API asking for storage, it does not matter what the backend is—apple or orange—as long as "fruit" (i.e., a logical bag of a certain size to hold bits) is the result that they get back.
- anonfordays 2y agoYes, it could be NTFS behind the scenes, but this is still an apples to oranges comparison because the storage service Oxide created is Crucible[0], not ZFS. Crucible is more of an apples to apples comparison with Ceph. [0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/crucible https://github.com/oxidecomputer/crucible