This is a patch series for v0.7 of the Ceph distributed file system
client (against v2.6.29-rc7).
Changes since v0.6:
* Improved (faster) truncate strategy
* Moved proc items to sysfs
* Bug fixes, performance improvements
Changes since v0.5:
* Asynchronous commit of metadata operations to server
Please consider for inclusion in mm and/or staging trees. Review
and/or comments are most welcome.
Thanks,
sage
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Ceph is a distributed file system designed for reliability, scalability,
and performance. The storage system consists of some (potentially
large) number of storage servers (bricks), a smaller set of metadata
server daemons, and a few monitor daemons for managing cluster
membership and state. The storage daemons rely on btrfs for storing
data (and take advantage of btrfs' internal transactions to keep the
local data set in a consistent state). This makes the storage cluster
simple to deploy, while providing scalability not currently available
from block-based Linux cluster file systems.
Additionaly, Ceph brings a few new things to Linux. Directory
granularity snapshots allow users to create a read-only snapshot of any
directory (and its nested contents) with 'mkdir .snap/my_snapshot' [1].
Deletion is similarly trivial ('rmdir .snap/old_snapshot'). Ceph also
maintains recursive accounting statistics on the number of nested files,
directories, and file sizes for each directory, making it much easier
for an administrator to manage usage [2].
Basic features include:
* Strong data and metadata consistency between clients
* High availability and reliability. No single points of failure.
* N-way replication of all data across storage nodes
* Scalability from 1 to potentially many thousands of nodes
* Fast recovery from node failures
* Automatic rebalancing of data on node addition/removal
* Easy deployment: most FS components are userspace daemons
In contrast to cluster filesystems like GFS2 and OCFS2 that rely on
symmetric access by all clients to shared block devices, Ceph separates
data and metadata management into independent server clusters, similar
to Lustre. Unlike Lustre, however, metadata and storage nodes run
entirely as user space daemons. The storage daemon utilizes btrfs to
store data objects, leveraging its advanced features (transactions,
checksumming, metadata replication, etc.). File data is striped across
storage nodes in large chunks to distribute workload and facilitate high
throughputs. When storage nodes fail, data is re-replicated in a
distributed fashion by the storage nodes themselves (with some minimal
coordination from the cluster monitor), making the system extremely
efficient and scalable.
Metadata servers effectively form a large, consistent, distributed
in-memory cache above the storage cluster that is scalable,
dynamically redistributes metadata in response to workload changes,
and can tolerate arbitrary (well, non-Byzantine) node failures. The
metadata server embeds inodes with only a single link inside the
directories that contain them, allowing entire directories of dentries
and inodes to be loaded into its cache with a single I/O operation.
Hard links are supported via an auxiliary table facilitating inode
lookup by number. The contents of large directories can be fragmented
and managed by independent metadata servers, allowing scalable
concurrent access.
The system offers automatic data rebalancing/migration when scaling from
a small cluster of just a few nodes to many hundreds, without requiring
an administrator to carve the data set into static volumes or go through
the tedious process of migrating data between servers. When the file
system approaches full, new storage nodes can be easily added and things
will "just work."
A git tree containing just the client (and this patch series) is at
git://ceph.newdream.net/linux-ceph-client.git
A few caveats:
* The corresponding user space daemons need to be built in order to test
it. Instructions for getting a test setup running are at
http://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/
* There is some #ifdef kernel version compatibility cruft that will
obviously be removed down the line.
The source for the full system is at
git://ceph.newdream.net/ceph.git
Debian packages are available from
http://ceph.newdream.net/debian
The Ceph home page is at
http://ceph.newdream.net
[1] Snapshots
http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=122341525709480&w=2
[2] Recursive accounting
http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=121614651204667&w=2
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Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt | 175 +++
fs/Kconfig | 1 +
fs/Makefile | 1 +
fs/ceph/Kconfig | 20 +
fs/ceph/Makefile | 35 +
fs/ceph/addr.c | 1027 ++++++++++++++++
fs/ceph/bookkeeper.c | 117 ++
fs/ceph/bookkeeper.h | 19 +
fs/ceph/caps.c | 1900 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/ceph/ceph_debug.h | 103 ++
fs/ceph/ceph_fs.h | 1355 ++++++++++++++++++++
fs/ceph/ceph_ver.h | 6 +
fs/ceph/crush/crush.c | 139 +++
fs/ceph/crush/crush.h | 179 +++
fs/ceph/crush/hash.h | 80 ++
fs/ceph/crush/mapper.c | 536 ++++++++
fs/ceph/crush/mapper.h | 19 +
fs/ceph/decode.h | 151 +++
fs/ceph/dir.c | 837 +++++++++++++
fs/ceph/export.c | 143 +++
fs/ceph/file.c | 432 +++++++
fs/ceph/inode.c | 2090 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/ceph/ioctl.c | 62 +
fs/ceph/ioctl.h | 12 +
fs/ceph/mds_client.c | 2391 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/ceph/mds_client.h | 314 +++++
fs/ceph/mdsmap.c | 118 ++
fs/ceph/mdsmap.h | 94 ++
fs/ceph/messenger.c | 2389 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/ceph/messenger.h | 267 ++++
fs/ceph/mon_client.c | 450 +++++++
fs/ceph/mon_client.h | 109 ++
fs/ceph/osd_client.c | 1173 ++++++++++++++++++
fs/ceph/osd_client.h | 142 +++
fs/ceph/osdmap.c | 641 ++++++++++
fs/ceph/osdmap.h | 106 ++
fs/ceph/snap.c | 883 +++++++++++++
fs/ceph/super.c | 1120 +++++++++++++++++
fs/ceph/super.h | 813 ++++++++++++
fs/ceph/sysfs.c | 465 +++++++
fs/ceph/types.h | 20 +
41 files changed, 20934 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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