From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: Mourning the demise of mkcephfs Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:37:17 +1300 Message-ID: <52813FFD.3000508@catalyst.net.nz> References: <5281192D.4090707@bob-the-boat.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bertrand.catalyst.net.nz ([202.78.240.40]:35513 "EHLO mail.catalyst.net.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751472Ab3KKUhX (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:37:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <5281192D.4090707@bob-the-boat.me.uk> Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "Dave (Bob)" , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org 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. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >