Skip to Content
Learning Ceph - Second Edition
book

Learning Ceph - Second Edition

by Anthony D'Atri, Vaibhav Bhembre, Karan Singh
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
9h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Learning Ceph - Second Edition

Filesystem

We've noted that when using the FileStore back end for Ceph OSDs one has a choice of underlying filesystem. While EXT4, XFS, and Btrfs have been officially supported for some time, EXT4 suffers certain troublesome shortcomings, including its limited ability to store the XATTR metadata that Ceph requires. With the Luminous release, EXT4 as a filesystem choice for FileStore is strongly discouraged and in fact one must explicitly enable it if required, along with severe restrictions on Ceph OSD capabilities. Btrfs has both fans and detractors. Whatever one's feelings regarding it are, it is not widely used among Ceph deployments, and thus information within the community is limited.

This leaves XFS as the FileStore filesystem of choice. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Mastering Ceph - Second Edition

Mastering Ceph - Second Edition

Nick Fisk
Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta
Kubernetes: Up and Running, 2nd Edition

Kubernetes: Up and Running, 2nd Edition

Brendan Burns, Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower
Programming Kubernetes

Programming Kubernetes

Michael Hausenblas, Stefan Schimanski

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781787127913