On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:37 PM, David J. Arias <david.arias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am sysadmin for a small IT consulting enterprise in México.
>
> We are trying to integrate three servers running RHEL 5.9 into a new
> CEPH cluster.
>
> I downloaded the source code and tried compiling it, though I got stuck
> with the requirements for leveldb and libblkid.
>
> The versions installed by the OS are behind the ones recommended so I am
> wondering if it is possible to compile updated ones from source, install
> them in another location (/usr/local/{} )and use those for CEPH.
>
> Upgrading the OS is (although not impossible) difficult since these are
> production servers which hold critical applications, and some of those
> are legacy ones :-(
>
> I tried googling around but had no luck as to how to accomplish
> this, ./configure --help doesn't show anyway and tried --system-root
> without success.
>
> I am following the instructions from:
>
> https://wiki.ceph.com/FAQs/What_Kind_of_OS_Does_Ceph_Require%3F
> http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/install/install-storage-cluster/#installing-a-build
> http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/install/#get-software
> http://wiki.ceph.com/FAQs
>
> The only data I've found so far although related doesn't really apply to
> my case:
>
> http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2014-July/041683.html
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ceph.user/3010/match=redhat+5.9
>
> Any help/ideas/pointers would be great.
I think there's ongoing work to backport (portions of?) Ceph to RHEL5,
but it definitely doesn't build out of the box. Even beyond the
library dependencies you've noticed you'll find more issues with e.g.
the boost and gcc versions. :/
-Greg
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