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KaiserProtoday at 10:51 AM2 repliesview on HN

Whats right with it?

Its slow, large, excessively complex and not that resilient to failure.

You either want a bunch of NFS machines backed on to ZFS on nvme, with a central jumping off point that allows sharding (this is critical to allow one or more NFS server to fuck up and not kill access to everything else.)

Or, pay the money and use GPFS


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__turbobrew__today at 4:12 PM

You are calling infra teams green for using ceph but then recommending hand rolling a sharded system on top of nfs? I think you have it backwards.

antongriboktoday at 12:11 PM

As someone who's in charge of close to an exabyte on Ceph, I couldn't disagree with you more.

Done correctly, Ceph is extremely reliable, resilient, and fast. Once you get over the initial learning curve, dare I say, even a joy to work with.

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