On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 10:46 AM Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, "ceph" command (as well as "rbd", "rados", etc) can be run from > anywhere -- it's just a matter of installing a package which is likely > already installed unless you are mounting CephFS manually without using > /sbin/mount.ceph mount helper. I have never heard of that helper, so no, we're not using it - should we? This "ceph" tool requires installing 90 MB of additional Debian packages, which I just tried on a test cluster, and "ceph fs top" fails with "Error initializing cluster client: ObjectNotFound('RADOS object not found (error calling conf_read_file)')". Okay, so I have to configure something.... but .... I don't get why I would want to do that, when I can get the same information from the kernel without installing or configuring anything. This sounds like overcomplexifying the thing for no reason. Max