system extremely efficient and scalable.
Metadata servers effectively form a large, consistent, distributed
-in-memory cache above the storage cluster that is extremely scalable,
+in-memory cache above the file namespace that is extremely scalable,
dynamically redistributes metadata in response to workload changes,
and can tolerate arbitrary (well, non-Byzantine) node failures. The
metadata server takes a somewhat unconventional approach to metadata
# mount -t ceph 1.2.3.4:/ /mnt/ceph
-is sufficient.
+is sufficient. If mount.ceph is installed, a hostname can be used
+instead of an IP address.
+
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