[sgarland]

I agree that it is hideously complicated (to anyone saying “just use Rook,” I’ll counter that if you haven’t read through Ceph’s docs in full, you’re deluding yourself that you know how to run it), but given that CERN uses it at massive scale, I think it’s definitely prod-ready.

[KaiserPro]

Oh it probably is prod ready, I just wouldn't use it unless I had to (ie I had the staff to look after it and no money to buy something better)

whether is a good fit for general purpose storage of stuff at a small scale is harder question. Its not easy to get good performance at small scale, and to get good performance requires a larger than you'd like number of storage nodes.

Yes it has inline FEC, (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-ceph/7?topic=components-...) but its lots of layers to get to a file system.

Personally I'd have a redundant array of storage nodes and be done with it. Its easier to debug a single server than 3 layers of ceph weirdness.