RBD is an block driver for the distributed file system Ceph
(http://ceph.newdream.net/

). This driver uses librados (which is part
of the Ceph server) for direct access to the Ceph object store and is
running entirely in userspace (Yehuda also wrote a driver for the
linux kernel, that can be used to access rbd volumes as a block
device).

Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brunner <chb@muc.de>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>