Ceph-Dokan A Native Windows Ceph Client

Meng Shengzhi @UnitedStack d.ketor@gmail.com

2015-6-6

Overview

Why Ceph-Dokan

Ceph-Dokan Developing

How to use Ceph-Dokan

Roadmap

Why Ceph-DokanCeph now run on Linux

No way to access Ceph directly on Win32

librbd, libcephfs, librados is needed on Win32

Samba is too slow

What is Ceph-DokanAll code compiled to Win32 platform

No translation dll is needed

Use Dokan like linux fuse

Directly mount CephFS like a local drive

libcephfs, librbd, librados

How to run Ceph Code on Windows

MSVC

Cygwin

MinGW32

How to run Ceph Code on Windows

ceph-mingw-types.h

pthread

mutex

memory mgmt

How to run Ceph Code on Windows

boost library

poll -> select

linux socket -> winsock2

other system call (backtrace, Sleep, etc)

Linux POSIX to Win32 FS

Dokan implements Win32 FS API

Ceph implements Linux POSIX API

Win32 and POSIX is very different

Linux POSIX to Win32 FS

open -> CreateFile

readdir, stat -> FindFiles

char* <-> wchar

UTF8 <-> GBK

Compile Ceph-DokanDownload MinGW from http://ceph.com/misc/MinGW-20150115.zip

Unzip the MinGW-20150115.zip to C:\

Open C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat you will get a MINGW32 bash shell.

Git clone the ceph-dokan

Make

Use Ceph-Dokan Install Dokan 0.6.0 on your Windows.Thread model

Dokan 0.6.0 support Windows XP/Vista/7/2008/8/2012

If you use Win8 or Win2012, you need install Dokan in Windows 7 compatibility mode.

Compile Ceph-Dokan

Mount：

Using Ceph-Dokan

Using Ceph-Dokan

Roadmap

cephx

librados.dll

librbd.dll

merge to upstream

Thank You!

https://github.com/ceph/ceph-dokan