Since Firefly you can test the use of the lightweight web client Civetweb instead of Apache. To activate it, it's very simple, there's nothing to install again, simply add this line to your ceph.conf:

[client.radosgw.gateway]
rgw frontends = "civetweb port=80"
...

If you have already installed apache, remember …

From Gregory and Craig in mailing list...

Gregory Farnum http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2014-June/040961.html %} "ceph osd crush reweight" sets the CRUSH weight of the OSD. This weight is an arbitrary value (generally the size of the disk in TB or something) and controls how much …

Realtime :

mount -o discard /dev/rbd0 /mnt/myrbd

Using batch :

fstrim /mnt/myrbd

Test

The empty FS :

$ rbd create rbd/myrbd --size=20480
$ mkfs.xfs /dev/rbd0
$ rbd diff rbd/myrbd | awk '{ SUM += $2 } END { print SUM/1024/1024 " MB" }'
14.4062 MB

With a big file... :

$ mount /dev/rbd0 …

The purpose of this test is to map a RadosGw Bucket to a specific Ceph pool. For exemple, if using a fast pool with ssd and a low pool for archive...

   standard_bucket datas  --> .rgw.buckets        (default pool)
   specific_bucket datas  --> .rgw.buckets.custom

First, we create a pool .rgw.buckets.custom …

Update on Apr 14th, 2016: LXC 2.0.0 First Support for Ceph RBD : http://cephnotes.ksperis.com/blog/2016/04/14/lxc-2-dot-0-0-first-support-for-ceph-rbd %}

A simple way to secure your data with containers is to use a distributed storage such as Ceph for LXC root storage.

For exemple :

# lxc-create -n mycontainer …