On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, xan.peng wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I ran into a little problem when trying ceph-deploy, and I'm wondering >> it's a bug? >> >> steps: >> 1) ./ceph-deploy -v osd prepare --fs-type ext4 >> mon02:sdb:/mnt/cephjournal/journal0 >> 2) ./ceph-deploy -v osd activate --fs-type ext4 >> mon02:/dev/sdb1:/mnt/cephjournal/journal0 >> "ERROR:ceph-disk:Failed to activate" shown. >> >> solution: >> go to target node, run `ceph-disk -v activate --mark-init sysvinit >> --mount /dev/sdb1`, find that in maybe_mkdir()@/usr/sbin/ceph-disk, >> os.mkdir("/var/lib/ceph/osd/osd-1") is called. >> Right here should we use os.makedirs() instead of os.mkdir()? As >> makedirs will create all intermediate directories but mkdir will not. > > You mean /var/lib/ceph/osd didn't already exist? That directory should be > created by the package. I think this has actually come up before but we > deliberately left it this way because if the directory is missing the > package is broken or not installed. What distro are you using? Is ceph > installed? > Hmm, I get it, I'm running Ceph which is compiled manually (the "configure && make && make install" things), and I should create /var/lib/ceph/osd before ceph-deploying. Sorry to disturb :( -- Best, xan -- 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