[talk] S3 Work-a-likes

[Mark Saad]

> On Thursday, November 3, 2016 12:40 PM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
> > 
> 
> On 11/3/16 8:48 AM, Mark Saad wrote:
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>>>  On Thursday, November 3, 2016 10:58 AM, Siobhan Lynch 
> <slynch2112 at me.com> wrote:
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>>>>   On Nov 3, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Mark Saad <mark.saad at ymail.com> 
> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>   All
>>>>   Last night there was a discussion about s3 work-a-likes. Here are 
> the two
>>>  that I know of.
>>>> 
>>>>   1. LeoFS .
>>>>      Written in Erlang, and runs well enough on FreeBSD, Solaris, 
> Illumos ,
>>>  Linux and maybe even  Windows.
>>>> 
>>>>   Written by rakuten and used in production on a number of things. 
> Including
>>>  Project-Fifo.net, Rakuten.com
>>>>   and a number of other systems.
>>>> 
>>>>   http://leo-project.net/leofs/
>>>> 
>>>>   2. Minio .
>>>>     Written Go , and claims to be supported on many platforms .
>>>>   Its fairly new but aims to be fully compatable.
>>>>   https://minio.io
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   Also fun things with LeoFS, it can run inside of a Zone or a Jail.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  Ceph has radosgw which is a REST gateway to emulate s3.
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>> 
>>  Trish
>>    I want to know why everyone is talking about ceph ? Not that I am in love 
> with LeoFS .
>>  But ceph has lots of issues on not linux.
>> 
> 
> tl;dr version: it's shite.  the longer story...it's shite and focused on 
> 
> linux pretty much.
> 
> i kid i kid - it's def some interesting technology, but even before 
> RedHat acquired Inktank there was a ton of linux specific foo baked into 

> the code.

Redhat has a way of removing support for non-linux from their code.

Going way back up2date and gfs were both once supported on FreeBSD . 

> 
> and even if you are running it on linux it's really unstable IMHO 
> outside of some specific use-cases.  but even then, using it as a block 
> storage backend for openstack for example, it is definitely not for the 

> faint of heart to implement and maintain at scale.

So I have heard this argument that its great for openstack. But I was shocked to 

hear that people are trying to use it as a block store for the kvms.

Why is this better then OCFS2 or GFS2 ? Or ever so why is this better then
iSCSI or AoE  ? a

My 2C is that is new and shiny .


> 
> just my two bits - i'm sure there are plenty of counterpoints out there 
> - but i've often put lots of hope that ceph will mature into a product 
> as it would have made my life *much* easier only to be disappointed.
> 
> 
> -p

> 



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