Ceph Striping Explanations and Examples

First, it is important to understand that striping is a client-side construct, existing above the librados layer. Client-side does not mean end-user-side, but rather the client portion of the Ceph stack, namely RGW and RBD, which sit above the librados layer. This is important because RADOS has no concept of striping, so by the time librados is crating RADOS objects, they are whole objects rea...