Deploying the CephFS

You can deploy Ceph File Systems (CephFS) in a storage environment and have clients mount those Ceph File Systems to meet the storage needs.

The deployment workflow is three steps:
  1. Create CephFS on a Ceph Monitor node.
  2. Create a Ceph client user with the appropriate capabilities and make the client key available on the node where the Ceph File System will be mounted.
  3. Mount CephFS on a dedicated node, by using either a kernel client or a file system in User Space (FUSE) client.

Before deploying CephFS , be sure that you have a running and healthy IBM Storage Ceph cluster and the Ceph Metadata Server daemon (ceph-mds) installed and configured.

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