As a brand newbie with CEPH I'm trying to figure out if it is a good solution given the hardware I have to work with and the problem I need solve. At first look CEPH does appear to do what is required, namely a replicating file system. But it appears it might be too "heavy". The environment is 2 Ubuntu Linux servers each with 2 hard drives. They will be clustered. Nothing, other than the hardware and OS, is decided. We can create any solution that works. One of the servers in the cluster will be primary and it will fail over to the secondary until the primary is brought back on line. Does Ceph make sense for keeping the hard drives/filesystems synced? Thanks for your input. Joseph The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.