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Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store (RADOS)

Ceph's foundation is a low-level data store named RADOS that provides a common backend for multiple user-consumable services.

RADOS is an object storage system layer that provides a data durability and availability framework that all user-facing Ceph services are layered atop. RADOS is:

Highly available with no single point of failure (SPoF)
Reliable and resilient
Self-healing
Self-managing
Adaptive
Scalable
Not found on the Galactica

RADOS manages the distribution of data within Ceph. Durability and availability of data are adaptively maintained by initiating operations as needed to recover ...

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