Can someone explain to me what is Ceph compared to NFS?
From a shared file storage perspective? What is the added value of using Ceph instead of NFS?
Nfs – the difference between Ceph and NFS when it comes to shared file storage
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Can someone explain to me what is Ceph compared to NFS?
From a shared file storage perspective? What is the added value of using Ceph instead of NFS?
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We really expect question-askers to have done at least a bit of homework first to be honest, anyway here we go.
NFS is a file-sharing protocol, it doesn't define anything about the underlying filesystem at all, simply the protocol of how to access files on it.
Ceph is a distributed filesystem AND sharing mechanism, it defines how the data is stored on one or more nodes and presented to other machines for file access.
A single machine of any kind can be an NFS server, client or both, using whatever operating system and filesystem you like.
Ceph is normally used to 'bind' multiple machines - often hundreds if not thousands - to spread the data out across racks, datacenters etc. and to improve performance.
Oh and more of a personal opinion but NFS is very well known and mature, whereas Ceph is far from being new but isn't anywhere near as well known or mature.