An exciting day for the Ceph community

Posted on Thu 03 May 2012 in blog • Tagged with Ceph • 2 min read

Today, as you’ve probably noticed if you’re following the development of the Ceph stack, something mighty cool has been happening. The ceph.com web site received a major makeover with a slick new design, and the people behind Ceph have announced the launch of a brand new company …


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Finding out which OSDs currently store a specific RADOS object

Posted on Fri 09 March 2012 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph • 2 min read

Ever wanted to know just which of your OSDs a RADOS object is currently stored in? Here’s how.

Suppose you’ve got an RBD device, named test. Then you can use the rbd info command to display which name prefix is used by the RADOS objects that make up …


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Ceph: tickling my geek genes

Posted on Thu 08 March 2012 in blog • Tagged with Ceph • 3 min read

Haven’t heard of Ceph, the open-source distributed petascale storage stack? Well, you’ve really been missing out. It’s not just a filesystem. It’s a filesystem, and a striped/replicated block device provider, and a virtualization storage backend, and a cloud object store, and then some.

Most of …


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