RBD-FUSE(8)

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✨ rbd-fuse ✨

okay bestie, welcome to rbd-fuse, which lives in section 8 of the manual (that's the sysadmin-y section, iykyk) 💅 it's the little tool that exposes your rbd images as files. yes, literally as files. sit with that for a sec 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rbd-fuse [ -p pool ] [-c conffile] mountpoint [ fuse options ]

like, that's the whole vibe check right there 💖

🚨 NOTE 🚨

okay so real talk for one second: rbd-fuse is not recommended for any production or high performance workloads. not "meh, it's fine", not "depends on your setup" — just no. keep it for the chill stuff, bestie 🙈

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

rbd-fuse is a FUSE client — and FUSE stands for "Filesystem in USErspace", which is genuinely iconic of the naming committee — built for RADOS block device (rbd) images. 👑

so here's the tea: you give it a pool that's got rbd images hangin' out in it, and it mounts a userspace file system for you where all those images show up as regular files at your mountpoint. that's it. that's the whole magic trick ✨

and when you're done and you wanna bounce, you unmount it like this:

fusermount -u mountpoint

or, if you'd rather be dramatic about it, you just send SIGINT to the rbd-fuse process 😌 either one works, pick your main character moment.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

heads up: any options that rbd-fuse doesn't recognize are getting yeeted on over to libfuse. it doesn't complain, it just hands them off. teamwork 🫶

  • -c ceph.conf — use the ceph.conf configuration file instead of the default /etc/ceph/ceph.conf to figure out monitor addresses during startup. so if your conf lives literally anywhere else, this is your girl 💜
  • -p pool — use pool as the pool to search for rbd images. the default is rbd. 🍓

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

rbd-fuse is part of Ceph — a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system. if you wanna know more (and honestly, slay, go read up), please refer to the Ceph documentation at https://docs.ceph.com. 📚

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • fusermount(8)
  • rbd <>(8)

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and that's a wrap, bestie!! this page came from the dev source, dated Oct 06, 2026 — go mount something cute, and remember: not for production, fr fr 🙅‍♀️✨🌸

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