[ceph-users] Re: Need clarification on CephFS, EC Pools, and File Layouts

Hi Jake, On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 8:11 AM Jake Grimmett <jog@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

Our cluster uses a 4PB 8:2 EC pool for cephfs data, and a 900GB replicated NVME pool for metadata. Presumably all writes put a footprint on the EC pool?

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