Multi-MDS
A new feature of CephFS is the support for multiple active MDSes. Previously, it was only recommended to have a single active MDS with one or more standby, which for smaller CephFS deployments was more than adequate. However, in larger deployments, a single MDS could possibly start to become a limitation, especially due to the single-threaded limitation of MDSes. It should be noted that multiple active MDSes are purely for increased performance and do not provide any failover or high availability themselves; therefore, sufficient standby MDSes should always be provisioned.
When multiple active MDSes are present, the CephFS filesystem is split across each MDS so that the metadata requests are hopefully not all being handled by a ...
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