On 12/11/2013 07:22, Wido den Hollander wrote: > On 11/11/2013 06:51 PM, Dave (Bob) wrote: >> The utility mkcephfs seemed to work, it was very simple to use and >> apparently effective. >> >> It has been deprecated in favour of something called ceph-deploy, which >> does not work for me. >> >> I've ignored the deprecation messages until now, but in going from 70 to >> 72 I find that mkcephfs has finally gone. >> >> I have tried ceph-deploy, and it seems to be tied in to specific >> 'distributions' in some way. >> >> It is unuseable for me at present, because it reports: >> >> [ceph_deploy][ERROR ] UnsupportedPlatform: Platform is not supported: >> >> >> I therefore need to go back to first principles, but the documentation >> seems to have dropped descriptions of driving ceph without smoke and >> mirrors. >> >> The direct approach may be more laborious, but at least it would not >> depend on anything except ceph itself. >> > > I myself am not a very big fan of ceph-deploy as well. Most > installations I do are done by bootstrapping the monitors and osds > manually. > > I have some homebrew scripts for this, but I mainly use Puppet to make > sure all the packages and configuration is present on the nodes and > afterwards it's just a matter of adding the OSDs and formatting their > disks once. > > The guide to bootstrapping a monitor: > http://eu.ceph.com/docs/master/dev/mon-bootstrap/ > > When the monitor cluster is running you can start generating cephx > keys for the OSDs and add them to the cluster: > http://eu.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/operations/add-or-rm-osds/ > > I don't know if the docs are 100% correct. I've done this so many > times that I do a lot of things without even reading the docs, so > there might be a typo in it somewhere. If so, report it so it can be > fixed. > > Where I think that ceph-deploy works for a lot of people I fully > understand that some people just want to manually bootstrap a Ceph > cluster from scratch. > > Wido > >> Maybe I need to step back a version or two, set up my cluster with >> mkcephfs, then switch back to the latest to use it. >> >> I'll search the documentation again. >> -- >> 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 >> > > Thank you very much Wido. David -- 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
