On Sat, 19 Jan 2013, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 1/19/2013 9:50 AM, Peter Smith wrote: > > > 3. OS recommendation: The OS recommendation page: > > http://ceph.com/docs/master/install/os-recommendations/#bobtail-0-56 > > says CentOS 6.3 has a default kernel with old kernel client. CentOS > > 6.3 is our production environment. > > I was unable to get ceph to run on centos 6.3 following the "5 minute quick > start" document. I did get one machine to "unclean" cluster state using > elrepo's kernel 3.7, but that kernel doesn't boot on most of our boxen > (boot-time oops in pata-acpi). > > It looks to me that unless inktank backports rbd.ko to 2.6.32, centos/sl users > won't be able to test ceph for a couple of years: until centos 7.1 comes out > and we get the chance to reimage our hardware. If you want to use the kernel client(s), that is true: there are no plans to backport the client code to the ancient RHEL kernels. Nothing prevents you from running the server side, though, or the userland clients (ceph-fuse, librbd, qemu/KVM, radosgw, etc.) 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
