Lately, we’ve been working very closely with RedHat’s Ceph Rados storage and it’s librados API, where we’re seeking ever closer integration with the backend storage to utilise many of Ceph’s benefits.
However lately, we hit an issue where one of our customers had configured their Pool to be erasure coded. Erasure coding is a form of data protection and data redundancy whereby the original file or object is split up into a number of parts, and distributed across a number of storage nodes, either within the same data centres or across multiple multiple data centres and regions.
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