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doc/start: improve MDS explanation
Improve the explanation of MDS as requested by Anthony D'Atri here: ceph#56367 (comment) Signed-off-by: Zac Dover <[email protected]>
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redundancy and high availability.
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- **MDSs**: A :term:`Ceph Metadata Server` (MDS, ``ceph-mds``) stores metadata
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for the :term:`Ceph File System`. Ceph Block Devices and Ceph Object Storage
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do not use MDS. Ceph Metadata Servers allow POSIX-file-system users to run
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basic commands (like ``ls``, ``find``, etc.) without placing a burden on the
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Ceph Storage Cluster.
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for the :term:`Ceph File System`. Ceph Metadata Servers allow CephFS users to
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run basic commands (like ``ls``, ``find``, etc.) without placing a burden on
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the Ceph Storage Cluster.
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Ceph stores data as objects within logical storage pools. Using the
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:term:`CRUSH` algorithm, Ceph calculates which placement group (PG) should

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