Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability. * Object Storage Ceph provides seamless access to objects using native language bindings or radosgw, a REST interface for applications written with S3 and Swift. * Block Storage Ceph's RADOS Block Device (RBD) provides access to block device images that are striped and replicated across the entire storage cluster. * File System Ceph provides a POSIX-compliant network file system aiming for large data storage, high performance, and maximum compatibility with legacy applications. This FreeBSD build will build most of the tools in Ceph: * Mon, OSD, rados, RadosGW, rbd * init-ceph, and etc/rc.d/ceph on top of that * ceph-disk {prepare, activate} With these tools one can build a multi server, multi osd cluster fully running on FreeBSD and do some testing... WWW: https://ceph.com/