rbd-fuse – expose rbd images as files

Synopsis

rbd-fuse [ -p pool ] [-c conffile] mountpoint [ fuse options ]

Note

rbd-fuse is not recommended for any production or high performance workloads.

Description

rbd-fuse is a FUSE (“Filesystem in USErspace”) client for RADOSblock device (rbd) images. Given a pool containing rbd images,it will mount a userspace file system allowing access to those imagesas regular files at mountpoint.

The file system can be unmounted with:

  1. fusermount -u mountpoint

or by sending SIGINT to the rbd-fuse process.

Options

Any options not recognized by rbd-fuse will be passed on to libfuse.

  • -c ceph.conf
  • Use ceph.conf configuration file instead of the default/etc/ceph/ceph.conf to determine monitor addresses during startup.
  • -p pool
  • Use pool as the pool to search for rbd images. Default is rbd.

Availability

rbd-fuse is part of Ceph, a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system. Please refer tothe Ceph documentation at http://ceph.com/docs for more information.

See also

fusermount(8),rbd(8)