ceph-fuse – FUSE-based client for ceph

Synopsis

ceph-fuse [-n client.username] [ -m monaddr:port ] mountpoint [ fuse options ]

Description

ceph-fuse is a FUSE (“Filesystem in USErspace”) client for Cephdistributed file system. It will mount a ceph file system specified via the -moption or described by ceph.conf (see below) at the specific mount point. SeeMount CephFS using FUSE for detailed information.

The file system can be unmounted with:

  1. fusermount -u mountpoint

or by sending SIGINT to the ceph-fuse process.

Options

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

  • -o opt,[opt…]
  • Mount options.
  • -d
  • Run in foreground, send all log output to stderr and enable FUSE debugging (-o debug).
  • -c ceph.conf, —conf=ceph.conf
  • Use ceph.conf configuration file instead of the default/etc/ceph/ceph.conf to determine monitor addresses during startup.
  • -m monaddress[:port]
  • Connect to specified monitor (instead of looking through ceph.conf).
  • -n client.{cephx-username}
  • Pass the name of CephX user whose secret key is be to used for mounting.
  • -k <path-to-keyring>
  • Provide path to keyring; useful when it’s absent in standard locations.
  • —client_mountpoint/-r root_directory
  • Use root_directory as the mounted root, rather than the full Ceph tree.
  • -f
  • Foreground: do not daemonize after startup (run in foreground). Do not generate a pid file.
  • -s
  • Disable multi-threaded operation.

Availability

ceph-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),ceph(8)