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Mastering Ceph

You're reading from   Mastering Ceph Infrastructure storage solutions with the latest Ceph release

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789610703
Length 356 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Planning And Deployment
2. Planning for Ceph FREE CHAPTER 3. Deploying Ceph with Containers 4. BlueStore 5. Ceph and Non-Native Protocols 6. Section 2: Operating and Tuning
7. RADOS Pools and Client Access 8. Developing with Librados 9. Distributed Computation with Ceph RADOS Classes 10. Monitoring Ceph 11. Tuning Ceph 12. Tiering with Ceph 13. Section 3: Troubleshooting and Recovery
14. Troubleshooting 15. Disaster Recovery 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

How BlueStore works

The following diagram shows how BlueStore interacts with a block device. Unlike filestore, data is directly written to the block device and metadata operations are handled by RocksDB:

The block device is divided between RocksDB data storage and the actual user data stored in Ceph. Each object is stored as a number of blobs allocated from the block device. RocksDB contains metadata for each object and tracks the utilization and allocation information for the data blobs.

RocksDB

RocksDB is a high-performance key–value store that was originally forked from LevelDB, but, after development, Facebook went on to offer significant performance improvements suited for multiprocessor servers with low-latency...

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