Ceph talk at LCA2010
I’ll be giving a talk on Ceph at linux.conf.au 2010! (Oddly enough, it’s in New Zealand this year, but I’m not complaining.) I’ve heard great things about LCA, and am looking forward to being there....
View ArticleClient merged for 2.6.34
Linus merged the Ceph for 2.6.34 this morning, which means the next kernel release will be able to mount a Ceph file system without any additional patches or modifications. This is a pretty big...
View ArticleRBD: rados block driver
Christian Brunner sent an initial implementation of ‘rbd’, a librados-based block driver for qemu/KVM, to the ceph-devel list last week. A few minor nits aside, it looks pretty good and works well....
View ArticleRados Block Device merged for 2.6.37
The Linux kernel merge window is open for v2.6.37, and RBD (rados block device) has finally been merged. RBD lets you create a block device in Linux that is striped over objects stored in a Ceph...
View ArticleRBD upstream updates
QEMU-RBD The QEMU-RBD block device has been merged upstream into the QEMU project. QEMU-RBD was created originally by Christian Brunner, and is binary compatible with the linux native RBD driver. It...
View ArticleSCALE 9x
I’ll be giving a talk at SCALE 9x targeted toward system administrators and users. It’ll be Sunday, February 27th at 4:30pm in the Century AB room. Hope to see you there! UPDATE: Here are the slides,...
View ArticleRoadmap update
We spent some time this week working on our technical roadmap for the next few months. It’s all been mostly translated into issues and priorities in the tracker (here’s a sorted priority list), but...
View ArticleRBD Status Update
Just a quick update on the current status of RBD. The main recent development is that librbd (the userspace library) can ack writes immediately (instead of waiting for them to actually commit), to...
View ArticleSCALE 10x slides
My SCALE 10x talk went well. For those who are interested, here are the slides in .odp format. Here is the pdf without the pretty and very effective builds.
View ArticleThe git repositories have moved
We’ve renamed our ‘org’ on github.com, so the new URLs are github.com/ceph github.com/ceph/ceph.git github.com/ceph/ceph-client.git etc. and so forth (instead of github.com/NewDreamNetwork). You can...
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