Solid-state drives and Ceph OSD journals

Posted on Sun 13 January 2013 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph, Performance • 4 min read

Considerations for running Ceph OSD journals on SSDs.


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Storage Replication in High-Performance High-Availability Environments

Posted on Mon 19 March 2012 in presentations • Tagged with DRBD, Flashcache, Pacemaker, Performance • 1 min read

At linux.conf.au 2012, Florian I this presentation on the integration of DRBD, Flashcache and Pacemaker in the High Availability and Distributed Storage miniconf.

In this 30-minute presentation, I explore the benefits of Flashcache for replicated storage. Flashcache, originally developed at Facebook, is a general purpose, block level cache …


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