Ceph: Designing and Implementing Scalable Storage Systems

How to do it...

In order for our client to have access to Ceph FS, we need to configure the client for accessing the cluster and mounting Ceph FS. Let's review how this is done:

1. Check your client's Linux kernel version:

        root@client-node1 # uname -r

2. Create a mount point directory in which you want to mount the filesystem:

        # mkdir /mnt/cephfs

3. Get the keys for the client.cephfs user, which we created in the last section. Execute the following command from the Ceph monitor node to get the user keys:

        # ceph auth get-key client.cephfs

4. Mount Ceph FS using the native Linux mount call with the following syntax:

Syntax: # mount -t ceph <monitor _IP:Monitor_port>:/ <mount_point_name> -o name=admin,secret=<admin_user_key>

 # mount -t ceph ...