Croit have new nvme OSD for preview

[DamienDye]

Hi all,

We’ve released a preview of FlashStore, croit’s Rust-based Ceph OSD for NVMe. It’s a drop-in replacement for the standard OSD. We think it could make a big difference to Ceph performance in hyper-converged Proxmox setups, so we’d really value feedback from Proxmox users.

It’s packaged for several distributions, including Debian Trixie, which is what Proxmox VE 9 is based on. If you’re interested, please give it a try and let us know how you get on.

Packages: https://github.com/croit/ceph-rust/releases
Docs: https://croit.github.io/ceph-rust/

Please note this is a preview release, so we don’t recommend using it in production yet.

It’s also available for testing in the croit product (frontier edition)

 

[DamienDye]

just to follow up I have written a personal blog post about getting this working on the worst mini pc I have in the house.
it has a script in the post if you would like to replicate my test enviroment.

https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/flashstore-osd-on-proxmox/

 

[tomservo]

I wanted to give it a try, but since my homelab is made mostly of junk I intercepted on its way to the trash, my NVME disks don't support the 4K blocks.

I might have missed it in the linked materials, but is there a plan to give this implementation to ceph upstream? It looks like the license would be compatible.