Re: Question about distributed FS for high-performance I/O [debian-hpc]

[Fabricio Cannini <fcannini@gmail.com>]

On 30-01-2016 02:10, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:34:47 PM Fabricio Cannini wrote:
> > > No no no. I strognly advise against Ceph. It is very sophisticated and
> > > fragile with huge and messy code base... Ceph is very unreliable, very
> > > slow and difficult to set up. Ceph couldn't care less for data integrity
> > > and in loing term data corruption is inevitable. I'm talking from
> > > experience. Please stay away from Ceph, it does not worth the effort.
> >
> > Like I said, I've no experience with ceph. ;)
> > For curiosity's sake, when/what version of ceph did you used?
>
> All stable releases made in 2014. And I wasn't just using Ceph but also
> maintaining it in Debian and contributing upstream.
> The problems I'm talking about are systematic issues unrelated to a
> particular version.


Yep, from the small digging I did on b.d.o and ceph mailing lists,
ceph ... doesn't seem ready for prime time. Which is a pity.



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