Ceph - Network File Share Drive

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Mihai

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I am aware that CEPH is not ideal for storing files, but I do not want to run both Gluster and CEPH on the nodes.

Right now we are running the file shares from FreeNAS, and I'd like to remove single points of failure as much as possible.

Are there any strategies for creating redundant network file shares with CEPH?

Requirements are very minimal with only a couple of people using the files on a regular people, so this is still in the research phase.

We'd also like to integrate with Nextcloud for remote access.

Is the only way by creating a "disk", creating a file system on top, and accessed externally to the CEPH network?

Has anyone done this? If so, how?

Thanks for your consideration.
 
Hi,

CephFS is what you are looking for.
Start two MDS services on your Ceph Cluster and you can use CephFS.
CephFS is marked as Stable since Luminous.
But if you need CIFS and Nextcloud I would make a VM on Ceph with rados block device.
 
Thanks Wolfgang, now I know what I need to research. I already found a lot of threads with good information.
 
After looking around what others have done, I see it can be quite a bit troublesome.

Are there any plans implementing management of CephFS through the GUI?
 
I´ve create disks in RBD with OMV as VM. prepare them as an iscsi device connect to one Proxmox Host. Then I´ve a disk /dev/sdX, and mount that disk to /media/XXX. In the DataCenter you can add it like a normal directory /media/xxx. I use it as backup location and for the iso files. You can use it also for all other reason. To mount disk after a restart there is a cronjob to mount the /dev to /media. It´s working since one year without any Issue.
 
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