[ceph-users] Re: cephfs vs rbd vs rgw

2021-05-26 Thread Janne Johansson
> So, its not necessarily a "which one should I support". One of cephs great > features is you can support all 3 with the same storage and use them all as > needed. ..with the caveat that you can't serve the same files over them, but it is quite true that you can have all three served from the

[ceph-users] Re: cephfs vs rbd vs rgw

2021-05-25 Thread Fox, Kevin M
The quick answer, is they are optimized for different use cases. Things like relational databases (mysql, postgresql) benefit from the performance that a dedicated filesystem can provide (rbd). Shared filesystems are usually counter indicated with such software. Shared filesystems like cephfs

[ceph-users] Re: cephfs vs rbd vs rgw

2021-05-25 Thread Cory Hawkvelt
Yeah, agreed. My first question would be how is your user going to consume the storage? You'll struggle to run VM's on RadosGW and if they are doing archival backups then RBD is likely not the best solution. Each has very different requirements at the hardware level, for example if you are

[ceph-users] Re: cephfs vs rbd vs rgw

2021-05-25 Thread Matt Benjamin
Hi Jorge, I think it depends on your workload. On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 7:43 PM Jorge Garcia wrote: > > This may be too broad of a topic, or opening a can of worms, but we are > running a CEPH environment and I was wondering if there's any guidance > about this question: > > Given that some