Ceph is a project mainly written in C++ and C, based on the LGPL-2.1 license.
Forks the Ceph distributed file system for extended features.
Please see http://ceph.newdream.net/ for current info.
To build the server daemons, and FUSE client,
$ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure
$ make or $ cd src $ make
(Note that the FUSE client will only be built if libfuse is present.)
A quick summary of binaries that will be built in src/
daemons: cmon -- monitor daemon. handles cluster state and configuration information. cosd -- storage daemon. stores objects on a given block device. cmds -- metadata daemon. handles file system namespace. ceph -- send management commands to the monitor cluster.
userland clients: cfuse -- fuse client. csyn -- synthetic workload generator client.
tools: monmaptool -- create/edit mon map osdmaptool -- create/edit osd map crushtool -- create/edit crush map
scripts: mkcephfs -- cluster mkfs tool init-ceph -- init.d start/stop script