I'll have to look at the iscsi and zfs initramfs hooks, and see if I can
model it most concisely on what they currently do. Between the two, I
should be able to hack something up.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Stuart Longland wrote:
> On 28/01/14 15:29, Schlacta, Christ wrote:
> > iPXE supp
On 28/01/14 13:37, Schlacta, Christ wrote:
> Has anyone done the work to boot a machine (physical or virtual) from a
> CEPH filesystem or RBD?
Booting a VM from RBD is doable in modern QEMU.
The QEMU process connects to RBD and presents it to the VM as a standard
block device, the VM doesn't know
This isn't a topic I know a ton about, but:
It is not possible to boot from CephFS, but will be soon (search for
"[PATCH 1/4] init: Add a new root device option, the Ceph file
system").
I think it is possible to boot from rbd (there is native kernel
support for it as a block device, for starters),
Has anyone done the work to boot a machine (physical or virtual) from a
CEPH filesystem or RBD?
I'm very interested in this, as I have several systems that don't need a
LOT of disk throughput and have PLENTY of network bandwidth unused, making
them primary candidates for such a setup. I thought a
