Re: Mourning the demise of mkcephfs

[Mark Nelson <mark.nelson@inktank.com>]

I forgot to mention you can change the ceph-init script in the packaged 
version too if you don't want to compile ceph from source.  It's a very 
easy modification and it should work fine afterwards.

Mark

On 11/12/2013 07:56 AM, Mark Nelson wrote:
> FYI, I created a bug for this last week:
>
> http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/6720
>
> Mark
>
> On 11/12/2013 06:22 AM, Dave (Bob) wrote:
>> On 12/11/2013 07:22, Wido den Hollander wrote:
>>> On 11/11/2013 06:51 PM, 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I myself am not a very big fan of ceph-deploy as well. Most
>>> installations I do are done by bootstrapping the monitors and osds
>>> manually.
>>>
>>> I have some homebrew scripts for this, but I mainly use Puppet to make
>>> sure all the packages and configuration is present on the nodes and
>>> afterwards it's just a matter of adding the OSDs and formatting their
>>> disks once.
>>>
>>> The guide to bootstrapping a monitor:
>>> http://eu.ceph.com/docs/master/dev/mon-bootstrap/
>>>
>>> When the monitor cluster is running you can start generating cephx
>>> keys for the OSDs and add them to the cluster:
>>> http://eu.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/operations/add-or-rm-osds/
>>>
>>> I don't know if the docs are 100% correct. I've done this so many
>>> times that I do a lot of things without even reading the docs, so
>>> there might be a typo in it somewhere. If so, report it so it can be
>>> fixed.
>>>
>>> Where I think that ceph-deploy works for a lot of people I fully
>>> understand that some people just want to manually bootstrap a Ceph
>>> cluster from scratch.
>>>
>>> Wido
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>
>> Thank you very much Wido.
>> David
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