From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Proulx Subject: Re: Ideal hardware spec? Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:46:15 -0400 Message-ID: <20120822154615.GF10015@csail.mit.edu> References: <20120822135530.GB10015@csail.mit.edu> <5034E9F3.10001@widodh.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from outgoing.csail.mit.edu ([128.30.2.149]:38887 "EHLO outgoing.csail.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757362Ab2HVPqR (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:46:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5034E9F3.10001@widodh.nl> Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Wido den Hollander Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:17:23PM +0200, Wido den Hollander wrote: :On 08/22/2012 03:55 PM, Jonathan Proulx wrote: :You can also use the USB sticks[0] from Stec, they have servergrade :onboard USB sticks for these kind of applications. Those look quite interesting. :A couple of questions still need to be answered though: :* Which OS are you planning on using? Ubuntu 12.04 is recommended Ubuntu 12.04 is our current preferred OS :* Which filesystem do you want to use underneath the OSDs? Whatever I can get to work best in testing :) Since this is for a research platform not a product I'd likely start with BTRFS and see if it is "stable enough" and "performant enough" with fall back to XFS if needed -Jon :Wido : :[0]: http://www.stec-inc.com/product/ufm.php