On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Jose M <soloning...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > One simple question, in the ceph docs says that to use Ceph as an HDFS > replacement, I can use the CephFs Hadoop plugin > (http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/cephfs/hadoop/). > > > What I would like to know if instead of using the plugin, I can mount ceph > in fstab and then point hdfs dirs (namenode, datanode, etc) to this mounted > "ceph" dirs, instead of native local dirs. > > I understand that maybe will involve more configuration steps (configuring > fstab in each node), but will this work? Is there any problem with this type > of configuration?
Without being a big HDFS expert, it seems like you would be essentially putting one distributed filesystem on top of another distributed filesystem. I don't know if you're going to find anything that breaks as such, but it's probably not a good idea. John > > Thanks in advance, > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
