The Ceph Filesystem offers the POSIX-compliant distributed filesystem of any size that uses Ceph RADOS to store its data. To implement the Ceph Filesystem, you need a running Ceph storage cluster and at least one Ceph Metadata Server (MDS) to manage its metadata and keep it separated from data, which helps in reducing complexity and improves reliability. The following diagram depicts the architectural view of Ceph FS and its interfaces:
The libcephfs libraries play an important role in supporting its multiple client implementations. It has the native Linux kernel driver support, and thus clients can use native filesystem mounting, for example, using the mount command. It has tight integration with SAMBA and support for CIFS and SMB. Ceph FS extends its support to Filesystem in USErspace (FUSE) using cephfuse modules. It also allows...