If you were to run your Red Hat based client in a vm you could run run unmodified an unmodified kernel. if you are using rhel 6.4 then you get the extra goodies in the virtio-scsi qemu driver.
On Oct 30, 2013, at 2:47 PM, <alistair.whit...@barclays.com> <alistair.whit...@barclays.com> wrote: > Now that my ceph cluster seems to be happy and stable, I have been looking at > different ways of using it. Object, block and file. > > Object is relatively easy and I will use different ones to test with Ceph. > > When I look at block, I’m getting the impression from a lot of Googling that > deploying clients on Red Hat to connect to a Ceph cluster can be complex. > As I understand it, the rbd module is not currently in the Red Hat kernel > (and I am not allowed to make changes to our standard kernel as is suggested > in places as a possible solution). Does this mean I can’t connect a Red Hat > machine to Ceph as a block client? > > _______________________________________________ > > This message is for information purposes only, it is not a recommendation, > advice, offer or solicitation to buy or sell a product or service nor an > official confirmation of any transaction. It is directed at persons who are > professionals and is not intended for retail customer use. Intended for > recipient only. This message is subject to the terms at: > www.barclays.com/emaildisclaimer. > > For important disclosures, please see: > www.barclays.com/salesandtradingdisclaimer regarding market commentary from > Barclays Sales and/or Trading, who are active market participants; and in > respect of Barclays Research, including disclosures relating to specific > issuers, please see http://publicresearch.barclays.com. > > _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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