Up to now, we have learned different methods of accessing CephFS, such as the Ceph FUSE, the Ceph kernel driver, and NFS Ganesha; however, these methods could be used only on Linux-based systems and are not supposed to work on Windows-based client machines.
An open source project such as Ceph has its own advantages; Ceph has developed a thriving community around it. ceph-dokan
is a native Windows Ceph client developed by Meng Shengzhi, working as the principal storage engineer at UnitedStack. In addition to OpenStack and Ceph development, Meng manages the ceph-dokan
project.
ceph-dokan
allows CephFS access on a Windows platform. To do this, ceph-dokan
makes use of two key components: libcephfs.dll
, which is an application to access CephFS, and ceph-dokan.exe,
which is based on the Dokan project to provide a FUSE-like filesystem service on a Windows platform, which helps in mounting CephFS as a local drive on Windows systems. In the background, ceph...