On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Christian Balzer wrote: > > Hello, > > On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:17:05 -0700 Sage Weil wrote: > > > Hi Florent, > > > > GPT partitions ate required if the udev-based magic is going to work. > > If you opt out of that strategy, you need to mount your file systems > > using fstab or similar and start the daemons manually. > > > THAT would have been great to know before I deployed this cluster totally > manually. > As in, the need to have GPT partitions for this to work is not mentioned in > the manual deployment pages at all. > > Putting stuff in fstab is trivial enough, not having OSD demons come back > up after a reboot is a major PITA.
Sorry, I misspoke. If the file systems get mounted, the daemons will start/stop on their own. The init scripts look for /var/lib/ceph/osd/* and will start/stop whatever they find there if the 'sysvinit' or 'upstart' marker files are present. sage > > Christian > > > sage > > > > On April 12, 2014 6:38:13 AM PDT, Florent B <flor...@coppint.com> wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > > >I run Debian Wheezy and Ceph 0.72 > > > > > >I would like to put journal of my OSD at the beginning of disk (aka > > >/dev/sda1). > > >/dev/sda4 is the partition for data. > > > > > >I do: > > > > > >ceph-disk prepare --cluster ceph --cluster-uuid xxx --fs-type xfs > > >/dev/sda4 /dev/sda1 > > > > > > > > > > > >Then : > > > > > >ceph-disk activate-journal /dev/sda1 > > > > > >tells me it can't read from /dev/disk/by-partuuid/xxx > > > > > >I have no /dev/disk/by-partuuid/ because I use MBR partitions. > > > > > >Are GPT partitions required to do what I want ? > > > > > >Thank you a lot > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >ceph-users mailing list > > >ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > > >http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > > > > > -- > Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer > ch...@gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Communications > http://www.gol.com/ > > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
