Ceph block devices are thin-provisioned, resizable and store data striped over
multiple OSDs in a Ceph cluster. Ceph block devices leverage
:abbr:`RADOS (Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store)` capabilities
-such as snapshotting, replication and consistency. Ceph's
-:abbr:`RADOS (Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store)` Block Devices (RBD)
+such as snapshotting, replication and consistency. Ceph's
+:abbr:`RADOS (Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store)` Block Devices (RBD)
interact with OSDs using kernel modules or the ``librbd`` library.
.. ditaa:: +------------------------+ +------------------------+
| OSDs | | Monitors |
+------------------------+ +------------------------+
-.. note:: Kernel modules can use Linux page caching. For ``librbd``-based
+.. note:: Kernel modules can use Linux page caching. For ``librbd``-based
applications, Ceph supports `RBD Caching`_.
Ceph's block devices deliver high performance with infinite scalability to
to operate the `Ceph RADOS Gateway`_, the `Ceph FS filesystem`_, and Ceph block
devices simultaneously.
-.. important:: To use Ceph Block Devices, you must have access to a running
+.. important:: To use Ceph Block Devices, you must have access to a running
Ceph cluster.
.. toctree::
Commands <rados-rbd-cmds>
Kernel Modules <rbd-ko>
Snapshots<rbd-snapshot>
- Mirroring <rbd-mirroring>
+ Mirroring <rbd-mirroring>
+ iSCSI Gateway <iscsi-overview>
QEMU <qemu-rbd>
libvirt <libvirt>
Cache Settings <rbd-config-ref/>
APIs <api/index>
-
-
-
.. _RBD Caching: ../rbd-config-ref/
.. _kernel modules: ../rbd-ko/
.. _QEMU: ../qemu-rbd/