Hi Warren,

On 20 May 2015 at 23:23, Wang, Warren <warren_w...@cable.comcast.com> wrote:
> We¹ve contemplated doing something like that, but we also realized that
> it would result in manual work in Ceph everytime we lose a drive or
> server,
> and a pretty bad experience for the customer when we have to do
> maintenance.

Yeah I guess you have to delete and recreate the pool, but is that
really so bad?

> We also kicked around the idea of leveraging the notion of a Hadoop rack
> to define a set of instances which are Cinder volume backed, and the rest
> be ephemeral drives (not Ceph backed ephemeral). Using 100% ephemeral
> isn¹t out of the question either, but we have seen a few instances where
> all the instances in a region were quickly terminated.

What's the implication here - the HDFS instances were terminated and
that would have caused Hadoop data-loss had they been ephemeral?

-- 
Cheers,
~Blairo
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