# Ceph as elasticserach backend

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ceph-as-elasticserach-backend/68993>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 14, 2016, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ceph-as-elasticserach-backend/68993 "2016-12-14T09:44:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![KamalSaurabh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@KamalSaurabh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KamalSaurabh)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ceph-as-elasticserach-backend/68993/1 "2016-12-14T09:44:47Z")

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Is it possible to use any distributed filesystem like ceph, as elasticsearch storage backend

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ceph-as-elasticserach-backend/68993/2 "2016-12-14T10:02:56Z")

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No it's not.

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**Author:** ![nick.e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8dc957/32.png) [@nick.e](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nick.e)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ceph-as-elasticserach-backend/68993/3 "2016-12-14T12:19:19Z")

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> [@KamalSaurabh](#):
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> Is it possible to use any distributed filesystem like ceph, as elasticsearch storage backend

Only in combination with rados/rbd or something equivalent.

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**Author:** ![KamalSaurabh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@KamalSaurabh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KamalSaurabh)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ceph-as-elasticserach-backend/68993/4 "2016-12-15T10:01:54Z")

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Thanks Nick I will test it out and update here with my findings.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ceph-as-elasticserach-backend/68993/5 "2016-12-15T10:19:48Z")

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Please don't do that.  
Don't distribute indices (files) on the network.

Let elasticsearch do his job and do the distribution on local disks across nodes.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ceph-as-elasticserach-backend/68993/6 "2017-01-12T10:19:53Z")

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