You can use librados directly or you can use radosgw, which, I think, would be pretty much exactly what you are looking for. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Stuart Longland <stuartl at vrt.com.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there some kind of web-based or WebDAV-based front-end for accessing > a Ceph cluster? > > Our situation is sometimes we have big blobs that we'd like to stash > somewhere safe, things like customer database backups, etc. Things > other than disk images. > > We haven't deployed CephFS at this stage as at the time, running more > than one MDS was not supported and I'd rather not rely on having > something that has that single point of failure. > > For now I'm just creating a RBD, formatting it XFS and slopping my data > into that. Not ideal, but it works: for me, as I run a Linux > workstation. It won't work for the Windows users (which outnumber us > greatly). > > I was thinking something along the lines of a WebDAV or Samba interface, > which I realise could be done with conventional Apache/Samba atop > CephFS, but I was wondering if there was something that would do it > using the librados API? Something like Ceph Gateway, but without the > specialised client requirement. > > Has anyone seen something along these lines or am I being to vague? > Regards, > -- > Stuart Longland > Systems Engineer > _ ___ > \ /|_) | T: +61 7 3535 9619 > \/ | \ | 38b Douglas Street F: +61 7 3535 9699 > SYSTEMS Milton QLD 4064 http://www.vrt.com.au > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users at lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com