Linux Torvalds, the father of the Penguins, had promised the Ceph file system would be part of the Linux kernel version 2.6.34, this release was recently made available in RC2 and presented during the CLT 2010 with much support for Ceph.
Ceph Distributed Network File System is made available under the LGPL, which is characterized by a decentralized architecture, it is a file system capable of sharing access to data between different servers and to manage petabyte scale.
Ceph is capable of simultaneous connections to thousands of nodes and incorporates advanced features for replication, in this way, if a given node is not available, it can be replaced by the call to a different server that has been replicated data.