The awaited presentation by SuSE. This topic had planned by SuSE to present this to us while they were here for their nation wide, travelling show last September. That show was cancelled, and we’ve been trying to schedule it since. So, we are elated that Michael will be coming in from Kansas City just to do this. We hope to have a great turnout of our members and other interested parties, so please invite everyone you know who is interested in Linux distress, file systems, or SuSE! So, make sure you all come Thurs nite! (Yes, we used to have the separate SuSE LUG at lunch time but we will do this as the regular nite-time mtng.) =============================== StL Linux Users Group ~CephFS file sys. SuSE Linux Thursday, January 16⋅6:30 – 9:00pm Monthly on the third Thursday Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland MO 63114  Description:https://stllug.sluug.org/ Thurs 16 Jan '20 Why EVERY Sysadmin should consider the CephFS file system. Michael Carrington (SuSE Linux Corp.wants us to know WHY EVERY SysAdmin should consider using CephFS, wether for considered for that big-honking Storage Array Cluster on the corporate enterprise or THE SMALL scale user, i.e. small office,... or even home/single user. What features YOU may want to be aware and perhaps use CEPH. Come hear why! Since we haven’t had a speaker from SuSE in awhile, this will be part of a broader discussion, i.e. 1. SUSE - What has happened recently. 2. SUSE Enterprise Linux - you know our kernel 3. SUSE Enterprise Storage - • 50,000' view • architecture • uses • Why you, as a UNIX admin should care 4. Other stuff =========================== The CephFS specifics: Ceph File System is an "object storage based”, free software, storage platform that stores data on a single distributed computer cluster. It provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage. Ceph aims primarily to be: completely distributed without a single point of failure, scalable to the exabyte level, and freely available. Ceph replicates data and makes it fault-tolerant,[4] using commodity hardware and requiring no specific hardware support. As a result of its design, the system is both self-healing and self-managing, aiming to minimize administration time and other costs. Ceph started in 2012. Was considered production ready in 2017. It was most recently updated in March 2019 w nearly annual releases. Developers include: Canonical, CERN, Cisco, Fujitsu, Intel, Red Hat, SanDisk, & SUSE. We in SLUUG had talks on it in Apr 2016 & Aug 2017. by Michael Carrington, SUSE Linux Corp. Storage System engineer from Kansas City) VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114 ========================================= The STLLUG meetings are usually on the third Thursday of each month from 6:30PM to 9:00PM.