Was in the same lab as Sage in grad school, and shared an advisor (Scott Brandt). He is super hard working, and definitely deserves this. Ceph was over 10 years of his life.<p>Fun fact - Sage was also the founder of webring, and simultaneously one of the dream host founders.
I really didn't see it coming, but now that it happened I'm kind of glad.<p>RH is one of the few corps who still has credibility and good karma. CEPH will be in good hands.
I would love to hear people's opinion's on what this means for ceph going forward? Will it change anything?<p>It's telling for me that as the project starts becoming 'hot' RedHat step in. I totally get why it's a great strategic purchase in the context of winning cloud adoption / share / love.
I would really appreciate if somebody can clear this up for me:<p>Can one mount Ceph on multiple nodes? (I'm referring to the CephFS part).<p>I've worked with OCFS2 (which allows you to do exactly this) and liked it very much, but would've loved a clustered backing storage. Which is what Ceph provides.
I think this is a clear play at driving some of the key components in the OpenStack world, with GlusterFS (subject of an earlier Red Hat acquisition) and Ceph being the two main distributed storage choices.