From 894603d91cd89b28b56044b956ba12dd437f9c42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Dover Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:08:10 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] doc/glossary: improve "MDS" entry Improve the entry for "MDS" in doc/glossary.rst by linking to the "ceph-mds" man page and mentioning the relationship between clients and MDS (or MDSes). Signed-off-by: Zac Dover (cherry picked from commit 2c6983d8b4e841f2bfbc4e4f82bb0e41e10aec7e) --- doc/glossary.rst | 11 +++++++++-- doc/man/8/ceph-mds.rst | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/glossary.rst b/doc/glossary.rst index 8bcde0d4c95de..c0f4793ea7f5c 100644 --- a/doc/glossary.rst +++ b/doc/glossary.rst @@ -263,11 +263,18 @@ Ceph-specific information about devices and its relationship with OSDs. - :ref:`MDS` + MDS The Ceph **M**\eta\ **D**\ata **S**\erver daemon. Also referred to as "ceph-mds". The Ceph metadata server daemon must be running in any Ceph cluster that runs the CephFS file system. - The MDS stores all filesystem metadata. + The MDS stores all filesystem metadata. :term:`Client`\s work + together with either a single MDS or a group of MDSes to + maintain a distributed metadata cache that is required by + CephFS. + + See :ref:`Deploying Metadata Servers`. + + See the :ref:`ceph-mds man page`. MGR The Ceph manager software, which collects all the state from diff --git a/doc/man/8/ceph-mds.rst b/doc/man/8/ceph-mds.rst index fd8fc800eca31..c68d3d110afad 100644 --- a/doc/man/8/ceph-mds.rst +++ b/doc/man/8/ceph-mds.rst @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ :orphan: +.. _ceph_mds_man: + ========================================= ceph-mds -- ceph metadata server daemon ========================================= -- 2.39.5