introduced in the Ceph Kraken release. The Luminous release of
Ceph promoted BlueStore to the default OSD back end,
supplanting FileStore. As of the Reef release, FileStore is no
- longer available as a storage backend.
+ longer available as a storage back end.
- BlueStore stores objects directly on Ceph block devices without
- a mounted file system.
+ BlueStore stores objects directly on raw block devices or
+ partitions, and does not interact with mounted file systems.
+ BlueStore uses RocksDB's key/value database to map object names
+ to block locations on disk.
Bucket
In the context of :term:`RGW`, a bucket is a group of objects.