Hello Everyone, We are using ceph-0.86, good news is we were able to compile and load all the libraries and binaries needed to configure a CEPH-OSD on MIPS 64 platform. The CEPH monitor is also able to detect the OSD, but not up yet, as the osd activate failed. Since we don’t have the required CEPH deploy utility for MIPS64, we are following the manual procedure to create and activate an OSD. We have disabled authentication between the clients and the OSD’s for now. Has any body tried CEPH on a MIPS64? /dev/sda is a 2TB local hard drive. This is how my partition looks after ceph-disk-prepare /home/prashan/ceph-0.86/src# parted GNU Parted 2.3 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: ATA TOSHIBA MQ01ABB2 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 2 1049kB 5369MB 5368MB ceph journal 1 5370MB 2000GB 1995GB xfs ceph data The following are the steps to create an OSD 1) ceph-disk zap /dev/sda 2) ceph-disk-prepare --cluster f615496c-b40a-4905-bbcd- 2d3e181ff21a --fs-type xfs /dev/sda 3) mount /dev/sda1 /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/ 4) ceph-osd -i 0 –mkfs is giving an error , filestore(/var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0) could not find 23c2fcde/osd_superblock/0//-1 in index: (2) No such file. After this it segfaults. We have analyzed this further with the help of strace and root caused this as objectmap file reading issue. open("/var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/current/omap/000005.log", O_RDONLY) = 11, the first time it reads 32k, the read succeeds with 63 bytes and it tries to read again with 27k and the read returns 0 bytes and the CEPH osd segfaults. Please note that ceph-disk prepare creates a journal in a path which is not valid(dev/disk/by-partuuid/cbd4a5d1-012f-4863-b492-080ad2a505cb). So after step3 above I remove this journal below and manually create a journal file before doing step4 above. ls -l /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/ total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37 Oct 22 21:40 ceph_fsid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37 Oct 22 21:40 fsid lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Oct 22 21:40 journal -> /dev/disk/by- partuuid/cbd4a5d1-012f-4863-b492-080ad2a505cb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37 Oct 22 21:40 journal_uuid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21 Oct 22 21:40 magic Any pointers to move ahead will be greatly appreciated?? thanks Prashanth -- 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