Josef, my comments based on experience with cephFS(Jewel with 1MDS) community(free) version.
* cephFS(Jewel) considering 1 MDS(stable) performs horrible with "small million KB size files", even after MDS cache, dir frag tuning etc. * cephFS(Jewel) considering 1 MDS(stable) performs great for "large GB/TB files" ie large IO, but still small inodes. * Your best bet is object storage interface (S3/SWIFT API or LIBRADOS API) * Multiple MDS and dir frag in Jewel is considered unstable(experimental feature). * For testing, you can try Luminous(multiple active/active MDS) with default dir frag enabled, but its just got stable couple of weeks back. So keep caution putting PROD data on "not battle tested" versions, unless you have a backup strategy. -- Deepak -----Original Message----- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Josef Zelenka Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 4:57 AM To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: [ceph-users] Large amount of files - cephfs? Hi, we are currently working on a ceph solution for one of our customers. They run a file hosting and they need to store approximately 100 million of pictures(thumbnails). Their current code works with FTP, that they use as a storage. We thought that we could use cephfs for this, but i am not sure how it would behave with that many files, how would the performance be affected etc. Is cephfs useable in this scenario, or would radosgw+swift be better(they'd likely have to rewrite some of the code, so we'd prefer not to do this)? We already have some experience with cephfs for storing bigger files, streaming etc so i'm not completely new to this, but i thought it'd be better to ask more experiened users. Some advice on this would be greatly appreciated, thanks, Josef _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
