Hi Peter, On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Peter W. Morreale wrote: > > I'm having a difficult time installing ceph for the first time by > following the newdream wiki site. Can some kind soul help with the > following? > > I've built ceph 0.24 from the tarball on a pristine OpenSUSE 11.3 > release, and performed: > > % make > % make install > % make install-data (from reading the makefiles) > > The goal is to install ceph on 3 identical machines, each with a > dedicated partition, using btrfs. (yes, ssh access w/o passwords are > configured among these machines) > > 1) /etc/init.d/ceph is not installed, nor are the sample confs installed > in /etc/ceph. Is there some other make target I need to run? The > INSTALL file in the source is not very helpful. Install manually? > Where is the init.d script? (.../src/ceph is a binary.) Currently the init.d script isn't installed by 'make install', only by the debian/redhat packaging. This is partly just ignorance on my part: I'm not sure to what extent the init.d script location is OS dependent. You can copy it yourself from src/init-ceph. > 2) Do I need a kernel client? Its not clear to me from the wiki what > the role of the kernel module is. Do I need the kernel client for > client access only? From a previous post I inferred that one could use > fuse for client access, is that correct? Right. The kernel module is only for client access. You can use cfuse instead. > 3) I assume I need to install the user-space portion of ceph on all > machines? Or do we differentiate between ceph user-space servers on on > "server" machines and the kernel client for 'client' access. The daemons are only needed on the server machines. /sbin/mount.ceph is needed on the client side only if you want to mount by hostname instead of ip. > 4) Is there some other documentation that explains bringing up ceph for > the first time? Everything I find is vectored to the wiki. > > Clearly I am missing the larger picture on how to install. Thanks in > advance for any info. The wiki is it. Any specific suggestions on what pieces of information (beyond the above) that would make it more helpful are welcome! sage -- 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
