Looking forward to it. Tests done so far show some interesting results - so I'm 
considering it for future production use.  

On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Sage Weil <s...@newdream.net> wrote:

> The challenge here is that libzfs is currently a build time dependency, which 
> means it needs to be included in the target distro already, or we need to 
> bundle it in the Ceph.com repos.
> 
> I am currently looking at the possibility of making the OSD back end 
> dynamically linked at runtime, which would allow a separately packaged zfs 
> back end; that may (or may not!) help.
> 
> sage
> 
> 
> 
> Dinu Vlad <dinuvla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any chance this option will be included for future emperor binaries? I don't 
> mind compiling software, but I would like to keep things upgradable via 
> apt-get …
> 
> Thanks,
> Dinu 
> 
> 
> On Nov 7, 2013, at 4:05 AM, Sage Weil <s...@inktank.com> wrote:
> 
>  Hi Dinu,
>  
>  You currently need to compile yourself, and pass --with-zfs to 
>  ./configure.
>  
>  Once it is built in, ceph-osd will detect whether the underlying fs is zfs 
>  on its own.
>  
>  sage
>  
>  
>  
>  On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Dinu Vlad wrote:
>  
>  Hello,
>  
>  I'm testing the 0.72 release and thought to give a spin to the zfs support. 
>  
>  While I managed to setup a cluster
> on top of a number of zfs datasets, the ceph-osd logs show it's using the 
> "genericfilestorebackend": 
>  
>  2013-11-06 09:27:59.386392 7fdfee0ab7c0  0 
> genericfilestorebackend(/var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0) detect_features: FIEMAP 
> ioctl is NOT supported
>  2013-11-06 09:27:59.386409 7fdfee0ab7c0  0 
> genericfilestorebackend(/var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0) detect_features: FIEMAP 
> ioctl is disabled via 'filestore fiemap' config option
>  2013-11-06 09:27:59.391026 7fdfee0ab7c0  0 
> genericfilestorebackend(/var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0) detect_features: syncfs(2) 
> syscall fully supported (by glibc and kernel)
>  
>  I noticed however that the ceph sources include some files related to zfs: 
>  
>  # find . | grep -i zfs
>  ./src/os/ZFS.cc
>  ./src/os/ZFS.h
>  ./src/os/ZFSFileStoreBackend.cc
>  ./src/os/ZFSFileStoreBackend.h 
>  
>  A coupel of questions: 
>  
>  - is 0.72-rc1 package
> currently in the raring repository compiled with zfs support ? 
>  - if yes - how can I "inform" ceph-osd to use the ZFSFileStoreBackend ? 
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Dinu
> 
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