Ceph implements resilience thru replication. An erasure coded backend is being worked on. The following diagram compares the two and is hopefully somewhat self explanatory. It was created in the context of the the Ceph BOF at OSCON and is available in ASCII as well as images generated from Ditaa and Shaky. A two minute presentation is derived from it to explain how to read the drawing.
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v
+----------+
| 10MB |
+--+-+-+---+
| | |
3 replicas Ceph pool | | |
| | |
+----------------+ | +------+
| +----+ |
| | |
v v v
OSD 1 OSD 2 OSD 3 OSD 4 OSD 5
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+ +---------+ +---------+
| 10MB | | 10MB | | 10MB | | | | |
+-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+
|0| | |1| | |2| | |3| | |4| |
+-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+
OSD 6 OSD 7 OSD 8 OSD 9 OSD 10
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+ +---------+ +---------+
| | | | | | | | | |
+-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+
|5| | |6| | |7| | |8| | |9| |
+-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+
^ ^
OSD 11 OSD 12 OSD 13 | |
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+ | |
| | | | | | | |
+-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+ | |
|a| | |b| | |c| | | |
+-+-------+ +-+-------+ +-+-------+ | |
^ ^ ^ | |
| | | | |
+-+ +--------+ | | |
| | +-------------------+ .. etc. | +---------+
| | | | |
++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++ ++
parity data
K=3 ^ M=10
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| encode
M is 10, K is 3 |
erasure coded |
pool +----+-----+
| 10MB |
+----------+
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