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coredog64yesterday at 4:46 PM1 replyview on HN

I've been looking at microceph, but the requirement to run 3 OSDs on loopback files plus this comment from the docs gives me pause:

`Be wary that an OSD, whether based on a physical device or a file, is resource intensive.`

Can anyone quantify "resource intensive" here? Is it "takes an entire Raspberry Pi to run the minimum set" or is it "takes 4 cores per OSD"?

Edit: This is the specific doc page https://canonical-microceph.readthedocs-hosted.com/stable/ho...


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dardeaupyesterday at 4:52 PM

Ceph has multiple daemons that would need to be running: monitor, manager, OSD (1 per storage device), and RADOS Gateway (RGW). If you only had a single storage device it would still be 4 daemons.