From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jimmy Tang Subject: Re: Quick CentOS/RHEL question ... Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:42:18 +0100 Message-ID: <20120912154218.GA14887@tchpc.tcd.ie> References: <50185964.3010803@scalableinformatics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Return-path: Received: from tabaet.tchpc.tcd.ie ([134.226.112.12]:42239 "EHLO tabaet.tchpc.tcd.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753588Ab2ILPmY (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:42:24 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Yehuda Sadeh Cc: landman@scalableinformatics.com, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 06:09:59PM -0700, Yehuda Sadeh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Joe Landman > wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > I was struggling and failing to get Ceph properly built/installed for > > CentOS 6 (and 5) last week. Is this simply not a recommended platform? > > Please advise. Thanks! >=20 > As mentioned by the other responses, it is possible to get Ceph built > for RHEL/CentOS even though it's probably not trivial. Getting proper > packaging for these distributions is pretty high on our list. We'd > love to hear about specific the issues that you have had. >=20 Will there also be backports of the kernel modules for cephfs and rbd? That's probably a make or break feature for anyone using RHEL based distros as they are not likely to want to upgrade their kernels manually and maintain them for security fixes. I guess if there are no kernel modules for cephfs and rbd RHEL could still be used as a osd, mon or mds. Jimmy. --=20 Jimmy Tang Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/ --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlBQrVgACgkQmRvHlXBDSynl5ACgz9e8gfjbyp3rGHzjRcJbKdDv u0kAoLkj5PnBHU7Qi0qG+6B7LO5yl84q =kWHZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--