+1 thanks for adding that Todd. Mike
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Mike Percy <mpe...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Kudu currently relies on local storage on a POSIX file system. Right now >> there is no support for S3, which would be interesting but is non-trivial >> in certain ways (particularly if we wanted to rely on S3's replication and >> disable Kudu's app-level replication). >> >> I would suggest using only either EXT4 or XFS file systems for production >> deployments as of Kudu 1.3, in a JBOD configuration, with one SSD per >> machine for the WAL and with the data disks on either SATA or SSD drives >> depending on the workload. Anything else is untested AFAIK. >> > > I would amend this and say that SSD for the WAL is nice to have, but not a > requirement. We do lots of testing on non-SSD test clusters and I'm aware > of many production clusters which also do not have SSD. > > -Todd > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera >
