I still cant stop smiling :-). Indeed, in my initial post here, I was referring to Lustre and Ceph filesystems as my post was something related to my other today’s post in the thread about @Toyoo’s … research paper. My focus in both of those posts was on topics related to "metadata database” and “metadata targets”. I am very happy that you raised your voice as my experience with Ceph is limited (I tried it twice but decided for GlusterFS as it better suited my needs (not storj related needs)). You are mentioning docker / podman as an easy way to deploy Ceph. I would stand with my initial suggestion for MicroCeph. It is super easy. However, in general, I share the opinion that for the needs of operating a storagenode it is a bit overblown system, also default MicroCeph configuration is rather not suitable at all. Nevertheless, some concepts are very interesting. BTW, do you have any experience with Lustre? In many ways, it seems to be lighter, at least on the paper.