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Migration from AFS to Cephfs

Ingo Ebel · CERN

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DESY completed a migration of user home directories from AFS to CephFS to address performance limitations, aging infrastructure, and operational complexity. The project involved deploying a high-availability Ceph cluster with NVME-backed metadata pools, erasure-coded data pools and quota management - demonstrating CephFS as a scalable, production-grade replacement for legacy AFS deployments in scientific research environments.

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The talk

  1. Migration from AFS to Cephfs 2026-03-19 · 12 min · CERN's player

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Institution
CERN
Speaker
Ingo Ebel
Year
2026
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science
Source
CERN
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