On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 06:09:59PM -0700, Yehuda Sadeh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Joe Landman > <landman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > I was struggling and failing to get Ceph properly built/installed for > > CentOS 6 (and 5) last week. Is this simply not a recommended platform? > > Please advise. Thanks! > > As mentioned by the other responses, it is possible to get Ceph built > for RHEL/CentOS even though it's probably not trivial. Getting proper > packaging for these distributions is pretty high on our list. We'd > love to hear about specific the issues that you have had. > Will there also be backports of the kernel modules for cephfs and rbd? That's probably a make or break feature for anyone using RHEL based distros as they are not likely to want to upgrade their kernels manually and maintain them for security fixes. I guess if there are no kernel modules for cephfs and rbd RHEL could still be used as a osd, mon or mds. Jimmy. -- Jimmy Tang Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/
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