Inspur has been working on improving Ceph for small file workloads and all-flash solutions. Some of the issues they are addressing include: high load on the RADOS gateway from frequent access between NAS and the file system with a single metadata daemon; problems with high workloads on the file system around attributes, opens, closes; and too many small objects being written to disks impacting performance. Their solutions include multi-metadata daemon support, small file aggregation to reduce objects, optimizations to the OSD single process model, and deduplication.