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From: "Jim Schutt" <jaschut@sandia.gov>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make mkcephfs and init-ceph osd filesystem handling
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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 10:46:38 -0600
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On 08/09/2012 10:26 AM, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> mkcephfs is not a viable route forward. For example, it is unable to
> expand a pre-existing cluster.
>
> The new "OSD hotplugging" style init is much, much nicer. And does
> more than just mkfs&  mount.

I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't been keeping up with this,
but I seem to recall that early versions didn't handle a
journal on a partition.  Did I get that wrong, or maybe that
capability exists now?  In the past I've found it to have a
small performance benefit, and would hate to lose it.

Thanks -- Jim