Re: Mourning the demise of mkcephfs

[Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>]

Hi,

Loic posted a script he uses for testing setups without ceph-deploy:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/ceph-devel/msg16895.html
http://dachary.org/wp-uploads/2013/10/micro-osd.txt

it probably has enough steps in it for you to adapt.

Regards

Mark

P.s: what *is* your platform? It might not be too hard to get 
ceph-deploy going on it :-)

On 12/11/13 06:51, Dave (Bob) wrote:
> The utility mkcephfs seemed to work, it was very simple to use and
> apparently effective.
>
> It has been deprecated in favour of something called ceph-deploy, which
> does not work for me.
>
> I've ignored the deprecation messages until now, but in going from 70 to
> 72 I find that mkcephfs has finally gone.
>
> I have tried ceph-deploy, and it seems to be tied in to specific
> 'distributions' in some way.
>
> It is unuseable for me at present, because it reports:
>
> [ceph_deploy][ERROR ] UnsupportedPlatform: Platform is not supported:
>
>
> I therefore need to go back to first principles, but the documentation
> seems to have dropped descriptions of driving ceph without smoke and
> mirrors.
>
> The direct approach may be more laborious, but at least it would not
> depend on anything except ceph itself.
>
> Maybe I need to step back a version or two, set up my cluster with
> mkcephfs, then switch back to the latest to use it.
>
> I'll search the documentation again.
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