Is CEPH NFS?

Is CEPH NFS?

1.3. Ceph File System architecture. Ceph File System (CephFS) is a distributed file system that can be used with either NFS-Ganesha using the NFS v4 protocol (supported) or CephFS native driver (technology preview).

How do I mount in NFS Ganesha?

How To Set Up NFS Ganesha

1. Install the following RPMs jemalloc-3.6.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm nfs-ganesha-2.2.0-0.fc20.x86_64.rpm nfs-ganesha-vfs-2.2.0-0.fc20.x86_64.rpm.
2. In /etc/ganesha/ganesha.conf , change Path and Pseudo from nonexistent to For more options, see config options.

What is NFS Ganesha?

NFS Ganesha is an NFS server (refer to Sharing File Systems with NFS ) that runs in a user address space instead of as part of the operating system kernel. With NFS Ganesha, you can plug in your own storage mechanism—such as Ceph—and access it from any NFS client.

Is there any way to authenticate with NFS?

NFS does not have any authentication by design. NFS was built to allow file system access through network connections, not file (or even user) access. Authentication and/or authorization has to be provided by another channel, like kerberos or other integrated rpc solutions. Unfortunately, integrated NFS security solutions are few and complex.

Can a NFS client be used on a Windows Server?

If you ware using Windows Server (s) an clients I pesonally would strongly recommend using CIFS. NFS is neither built for windows file access nor feature complete. NFS is missing any authentication, has no ACL transport and lacks transport securtiy at all. Addidionally it runs in the WFA compatibility layer which isn’t built for performance.

Can a unauthorized machine mount an nfs share?

At this point, the unauthorized machine isthe system permitted to mount the NFS share, since no username or password information is exchanged to provide additional security for the NFS mount.

Do you have to enable NFS lock to start NFS server?

Restart and enable the NFS server and related services. Note that you don’t have to enable nfs-lock and nfs-idmapd because they will be automatically started by the other services on boot: NFS / Kerberos server [box2: 192.168.0.20] (also known as Key Distribution Center, or KDC for short).