On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 3:19 PM Matthew Pounsett <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 18:12, Vasu Kulkarni <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> As explained above, we can't just create smaller raw devices.  Yes,
>>> these are VMs but they're meant to replicate physical servers that will be
>>> used in production, where no such volumes are available.
>>>
>> In that case you will have to use the same version of ceph-deploy you
>> have used to deploy the original systems. you cannot do this now with newer
>> version.
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>>>
>>> So.. we're trying to figure out how to replicate the configuration we've
>>> been using where the ceph data is stored on the OS filesystem.
>>>
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> That's irritating, but understood. :)
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> Is there a way we can easily set that up without trying to use outdated
> tools?  Presumably if ceph still supports this as the docs claim, there's a
> way to get it done without using ceph-deploy?
>
It might be more involved if you are trying to setup manually, you can give
1.5.38  a try(not that old) and see if it works
https://pypi.org/project/ceph-deploy/1.5.38/


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> If not.. I guess worst case we can revisit having the hardware group to
> repartition the drives with separate, tiny, data and journal partitions...
> that is assuming it's not required that those functions have access to
> whole disks.  We would rather avoid that if at all possible, though.
>
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