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# CephFS - `cephfs`

```{youtube} https://youtube.com/watch?v=kVLGbvRU98A
:title: Ceph and a LXD cluster
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{abbr}`CephFS (Ceph File System)` is Ceph's file system component that provides a robust, fully-featured POSIX-compliant distributed file system.
Internally, it maps files to Ceph objects and stores file metadata (for example, file ownership, directory paths, access permissions) in a separate data pool.

## Terminology

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A *CephFS file system* consists of two OSD storage pools, one for the actual data and one for the file metadata.

## `cephfs` driver in LXD

```{note}
The `cephfs` driver can only be used for custom storage volumes with content type `filesystem`.

For other storage volumes, use the {ref}`Ceph <storage-ceph>` driver.
That driver can also be used for custom storage volumes with content type `filesystem`, but it implements them through Ceph RBD images.
```

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You can either create the CephFS file system that you want to use beforehand and specify it through the {config:option}`storage-cephfs-pool-conf:source` option, or specify the {config:option}`storage-cephfs-pool-conf:cephfs.create_missing` option to automatically create the file system and the data and metadata OSD pools (with the names given in {config:option}`storage-cephfs-pool-conf:cephfs.data_pool` and {config:option}`storage-cephfs-pool-conf:cephfs.meta_pool`).

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The `cephfs` driver in LXD supports snapshots if snapshots are enabled on the server side.

## Configuration options

The following configuration options are available for storage pools that use the `cephfs` driver and for storage volumes in these pools.

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### Storage pool configuration

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### Storage volume configuration

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