Package: ceph-fuse
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libfuse2
+Recommends: ceph
Description: FUSE-based client for the Ceph distributed file system
Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide
- excellent performance, reliability, and scalability.
+ excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This is a
+ FUSE-based client that allows you to mount a Ceph file system without
+ root privileges.
.
- This is a FUSE-based client that allows you to mount a Ceph file
- system without root privileges.
+ Because the FUSE-based client has certain inherent performance
+ limitations, it is recommended that the native Linux kernel client
+ be used if possible (see ceph-kclient-source). If it is not
+ practical to load a kernel module (insufficient privileges, older
+ kernel, etc.), then the FUSE client will do.
Package: ceph-kclient-source
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, make
Description: source for client kernel module for the Ceph distributed file system
Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide
- excellent performance, reliability, and scalability.
+ excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This is the
+ Ceph client source package for building the client kernel module.
.
- This is the ceph kernel source package for use with module-assistant.
+ This native kernel client is faster and is more robust than the
+ FUSE-based client (ceph-fuse). However, you need to compile the
+ module against your running kernel and will need root privileges
+ to load it.