Hi, I think it is working now. I had to do these steps: cp src/init-ceph /etc/init.d/ceph chmod a+x /etc/init.d/ceph chmod u+w /etc/init.d/ceph /etc/init.d/ceph -c /etc/ceph/ceph.conf start Now, the server processes are running # ps -aux | grep ceph Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html root 1948 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:28 0:00 [ceph-msgr/0] root 1949 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 11:28 0:00 [ceph-msgr/1] root 12467 0.0 0.0 179812 3452 ? Ssl 15:58 0:00 /usr/local/bin/cmon -i 0 -c /etc/ceph/ceph.conf root 12495 0.0 0.0 189532 3792 ? Ssl 15:58 0:00 /usr/local/bin/cmds -i 0 -c /etc/ceph/ceph.conf root 12545 0.0 0.2 247480 21676 ? Ssl 15:58 0:00 /usr/local/bin/cosd -i 1 -c /etc/ceph/ceph.conf root 12597 0.0 0.0 7616 920 pts/1 R+ 16:01 0:00 grep --color=auto ceph The mount command at the client machine was successful too: # mount | grep ceph 10.194.145.203:/ on /mnt/ceph type ceph (rw) A small performance test inside EC2: I created 2 Instances. 1 Instance has an EBS-Volume attached. The EBS-Volume is the storage for the Ceoh. Both instances (m1.large) are inside EC2 us-east-1d. Create testdata # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/testfile bs=1024 count=1000000 1000000+0 records in 1000000+0 records out 1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 7.24084 s, 141 MB/s # cat test.bat cp /tmp/testfile /mnt/ceph sync Copy the testdata from the client to the server: # time ./test.bat real 0m29.211s user 0m0.020s sys 0m1.490s Thanks a lot for the help. Best Regards, Christian Am Dienstag, 20. April 2010 schrieb Wido den Hollander: > Hi, > > Do you have the following processes running? > > - cmon > - cmds > - cosd > > And you are trying to mount the Ceph filesystem which is running local > isn't it? > > I also experienced some troubles with mounting a local Ceph filesystem, > so i switched to a dedicated client. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html