On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 04:47, Upendra Moturi <upendra.m@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What does mkcepfs do? (A per my understanding from your post ,it is > used to to initialize filesystem/object store) Sets up the whole distributed system, including the object store and if configured, the distributed filesystem metadata servers. http://ceph.newdream.net/docs/latest/man/8/mkcephfs/ > When we trigger mount ,it is like having a file system ? If you mount the filesystem, it is like having a filesystem mounted. I'm not sure what the real question here is. > Is it correct to create a rbd device on top of this filesystem.(I am > confused about this.)Bock device is something which we have instead of > filesystem. RBD lives on top of the object store, unrelated to the distributed filesystem. http://ceph.newdream.net/docs/latest/ http://ceph.newdream.net/docs/latest/start/block/ > Can we create a rbd device without filesystem mounted and can it be a > shared device. Yes. Yes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
