additional monitoring and providing interfaces to external
monitoring and management systems.
+.. _rados_config_storage_devices_osd_backends:
OSD Back Ends
=============
FileStore
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+.. warning:: Filestore has been deprecated in the Reef release and is no longer supported.
+
FileStore is the legacy approach to storing objects in Ceph. It
relies on a standard file system (normally XFS) in combination with a