On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, xan.peng wrote:
> 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.
Oh, I see. We should probably make the 'make install' rule in Makefile.am
create those directories, then!
> Sorry to disturb :(
Not at all; thanks for bringing it up! Happy to take a patch that fixes
up the make install behavior.
sage
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