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Why "The creation and management of RBD images is not within the scope of this component." ? #724

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The NVMe-oF will create an RBD image if it does not exist in the create namespace command.
It will not provide you, with all the image life cycle capabilities RBD provides. Both gateways provide similar functionality in their CLI with differences resulting from the different protocols.
For a single point of management, you should use Ceph CLI and APIs and not the gateway CLI (we have the APIs and CLI is WIP).

Cinde or CSI interfaces are for provisioning and attaching the volumes, they do not handle the data path like the NVMe-oF gateway. On the contrary, the gateway is all about implementing the NMVe-oF protocol (data path). You cannot compare those components
Rook is a Ceph orchestrator …

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xin3liang Jun 20, 2024
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