From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: Mourning the demise of mkcephfs Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:54:35 +1300 Message-ID: <5282F7FB.4070803@catalyst.net.nz> References: <5281192D.4090707@bob-the-boat.me.uk> <5282F309.2030104@catalyst.net.nz> 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]:39806 "EHLO mail.catalyst.net.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755867Ab3KMDyj (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:54:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <5282F309.2030104@catalyst.net.nz> Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Alfredo Deza , "Dave (Bob)" Cc: ceph-devel On 13/11/13 16:33, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > On 13/11/13 04:53, Alfredo Deza wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Dave (Bob) >> wrote: >> >>> It is unuseable for me at present, because it reports: >>> >>> [ceph_deploy][ERROR ] UnsupportedPlatform: Platform is not supported: >>> >> That looks like a bug. For the past few months the log output of >> ceph-deploy has tried to improve to give as much useful information >> as possible. >> >> To get to the bottom of this it would be super helpful to know what >> distro you were attempting to connect to, what the actual command was, >> and what version of ceph-deploy you were using. >> >> Hopefully, with that information and the (possible) bug fix, it will >> mean that more and more people find ceph-deploy as a robust solution >> to get >> a Ceph cluster up and running. >> >> > > I believe he is using a self built (or heavily customized) Linux > installation - so distribution detection is not going to work in this > case. I'm wondering if there could be some sensible fall back for > that, e.g: > > - refuse to install or purge > - assume sysv init > > so that ceph-deploy can 'do the best it can' in these situations. > Thoughts? > Ahem - replying to myself, sorry: It might be just as easy to allow init to be specified as an option (--init INITTYPE). As an aside, for my development (Ubuntu) workstation, I'm building ceph from src and using ceph-deploy to install it - *but* am switching init to sysv afterwards (I just prefer to use it for that situation). Cheers Mark