Re: [PATCH] make mkcephfs and init-ceph osd filesystem handling more flexible

[Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>]

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Am 09.08.2012 18:53, schrieb Tommi Virtanen:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Jim Schutt <jaschut@sandia.gov> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> It's still not quite ready for prime time. Journal placement was cut
> out to allow us to focus on the distributed aspects of it first; those
> are now working pretty well. Putting much effort on the alternative is
> probably not a good bet.
> 
> This ticket needs to get fixed (and defined better, first!) to have
> more flexibility with journals:
> http://tracker.newdream.net/issues/2398

So you mean chef?! Will there be an alternative to simply setup a
cluster from console?

We (SUSE) are already working on an own chef ceph cookbook. But from
what I've seen till now it's really hard and more laborious to initially
setup a cluster with chef than with mkcephfs.

Danny


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