redirecting intense write activity, Folder2RAM, etc...

alyarb

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Has anyone ever looked at Folder2RAM:

https://github.com/bobafetthotmail/folder2ram

I see it more often used in conjunction with OMV but as it's also Debian-based I wanted to mention it here to get your thoughts.

Consider a PVE/Ceph setup comprised of blade servers such as Dell M610, M620, M630 etc. If you want to use Ceph, the 2x 2.5" bays in the front will be taken up by the OSDs, and your only option for running the root file system is a single USB stick or mirrored SD cards. If you want redundant/uninterruptible, the mirrored SD solution is your only option except for the M640 server which finally introduced a dual-m.2 solution.

Wouldn't it be nice if the most write-intensive PVE/Ceph/log directories were kept in RAM, or would it be better to symlink them to a CephFS folder?

What is the appropriate approach here? SLC-based SDHC cards, or is it reasonable to redirect certain folders elsewhere?
 
Hi,

there are no plans to support USB/SC cards as an OS device.
 

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