[CentOS] Large file system idea

Mon May 19 15:11:45 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2014, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> Do you really need filesystem semantics or would ceph's object store work?
>
> Yes, I really need file system semantics; I am storing home directories.

In that case, wouldn't it be simpler to have several separate DRBD
pairs with the directory from the appropriate server automounted at
login instead of consolidating them to the point where you have
scaling issues?

And have you tried ceph's filesystem layer?

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   Les Mikesell
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