On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Nico Schottelius
<nico.schottelius@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> for a few days we are disecting ceph-disk and ceph-volume to find out,
> what is the appropriate way of creating partitions for ceph.
ceph-volume does not create partitions for ceph
>
> For years already I found ceph-disk (and especially ceph-deploy) very
> error prone and we at ungleich are considering to rewrite both into a
> ceph-block-do-what-I-want-tool.
This is not very simple, that is the reason why there are tools that
do this for you.
>
> Only considering bluestore, I see that ceph-disk creates two partitions:
>
> Device Start End Sectors Size Type
> /dev/sde1 2048 206847 204800 100M Ceph OSD
> /dev/sde2 206848 2049966046 2049759199 977.4G unknown
>
> Does somebody know, what exactly belongs onto the xfs formatted first
> disk and how is the data/wal/db device sde2 formatted?
If you must, I would encourage you to try ceph-disk out with full
verbosity and dissect all the system calls, which will answer how the
partitions are formatted
>
> What I really would like to know is, how can we best extract this
> information so that we are not depending on ceph-{disk,volume} anymore.
Initially you mentioned partitions, but you want to avoid ceph-disk
and ceph-volume wholesale? That is going to take a lot more effort.
These tools not only "prepare" devices
for Ceph consumption, they also "activate" them when a system boots,
it talks to the cluster to register the OSDs, etc... It isn't just
partitioning (for ceph-disk).
>
> Any pointer for the on disk format would be much appreciated!
Again, if you are only interested in how ceph-disk partitions or how
ceph-volume formats, you should try them out with full verbosity
(ceph-volume logs everything to /var/log/ceph/ceph-volume.log)
>
> Best,
>
> Nico
>
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