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I don't know about this. We had disastrous experiences with Ceph and Gluster on bare metal. I think this says more about the immaturity (and difficulty) of distributed file systems than the cloud per se.

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I think it says more about the state of open source distributed file systems than the cloud per se. Ceph and Gluster are not the best examples of these, though Lustre is awful too. I'm paid to dig into these at depth and each is like some combination of religion and dumpster fire. Understand that Red Hat (and Intel in the Lustre case) wants support, training and professional services revenue. Outside of their paid domains, it's truly commerce with demons but inside it's not much better.

BeeGFS is the only nominally open source one that I'd think about trusting my data too. And no, I don't work for them or am compensated in any way for recommendations.

Distributed file systems are tough especially if you're putting it together yourself. I'd go for an already built solution every time unless I absolutely could not for whatever the reason.

Thanks for posting. What went wrong with Ceph and when was this? We have the idea it improved a lot in the last year or so. But we'd love to learn from your experience.

Was your experience RE: Ceph/Gluster from Stack Overflow? I'd definitely be interested in hearing more about the specifics of that.

I think he's talking about Discourse.

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