Yes, you can deploy an OSD on a partition or LVM. What you propose is generally discouraged for multiple reasons. Is this is a sandbox cluster?
How large would these partitions be? OSDs smaller than … say 256-500GB can behave unexpectedly. > On Jun 13, 2025, at 10:54 AM, filip Mutterer <fi...@3dds.io> wrote: > > Is it possible to partition an OSD storage drive? As I only have 2 S-ATA > ports it sounds like a better choice to use a small part of the two SSDs for > the operating system and leave the rest to Ceph. Can I do this? > > I already have a setup like this with ZFS and it can have significant > downsides. but we can live with slow and save data due to this combination. > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io
