Fun with extended attributes in Ceph Dumpling

Posted on Mon 24 February 2014 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph • 7 min read

This is a rather nasty bug in Ceph OSD, affecting 0.67 “Dumpling” and earlier releases. It is fixed in versions later than 0.70, and a simple workaround is available, but when it hits, this issue can be pretty painful.

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Unrecoverable unfound objects in Ceph 0.67 and earlier

Posted on Tue 28 January 2014 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph • 3 min read

As Ceph author Sage Weil points out frequently, distributed storage solutions for all their goodness have a “dirty little secret”: No matter just how redundant and reliable they are by design, a bug in the storage software itself can be a real issue.

And occasionally, the bug doesn’t have …


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Greetings from Havana: A fresh perspective on globally distributed OpenStack

Posted on Tue 10 December 2013 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack • 1 min read

My second appearance at OpenStack Israel, this time with news on distributed OpenStack environments in the Havana release.


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Ceph: object storage, block storage, file system, replication, massive scalability and then some!

Posted on Fri 31 May 2013 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph, Conference • 1 min read

This is one of my most popular talks, co-presented with intrepid cartoonist-turned-engineer Tim Serong from SUSE.


This article originally appeared on the hastexo.com website (now defunct).


Ceph: The Storage Stack for OpenStack

Posted on Tue 28 May 2013 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph, Conference • 1 min read

My presentation from OpenStack Israel, May 27, 2013. After a brief introduction into Ceph, I dive into OpenStack specific Ceph features and outlines RBD integration with Glance and Cinder, and explains RadosGW Swift compatibility.


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