Sorry for the re-post. First attempt got eaten by the mailing list because it wasn't plain text. My first attempt! > With CephFS not quite ready for production, what would be the recommended way for sharing Ceph to older operating systems? Specifically, I want to share a file system (i.e. mount a common directory) on several CentOS5 and CentOS6 nodes. I don't think I can mount an RBD from more than one node, so what is my best bet? > > Mount an RBD on a file "head" and export it via NFS? > > I feel like that is the only sane choice, but wanted to ask in case I am missing something better. - Travis > > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Sam Zaydel <sam.zaydel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I think you will be able to build from source the client bits that you >> need, but I saw this from an earlier similar discussion mentioning >> Python version, so I would make sure that python > 2.5 is used, >> realistically 2.6 should be the norm today. >> >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ceph.devel/5717 >> >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:16 PM, <Eric_YH_Chen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Dear All: >> > >> > My ceph cluster is installed on Ubuntu 12.04 with kernel 3.2.0. >> > >> > But I have a situation that I may need to mount cephfs on centos 5.7, which with kernel 2.6.18. >> > >> > (that is to say , I only need to execute mount.ceph on the centos 5.7, not the whole ceph system) >> > >> > I want to find a solution that can provide reliable and high availability share file system. >> > >> > Is it possible to do this? Or any other recommend way? Ex: export NFS… >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > >> > -- >> > 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> Inked by Sam Zaydel >> -- >> 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 > > -- 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
