The LX branded zones might be a way to run OSDs on Illumos: https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/LX+Branded+Zones
For fun, I tried a month or so ago, managed to have a quorum. OSDs wouldn't start, I didn't look further as far as debugging. I'll give it a go when I have more time. On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Mark Nelson <mnel...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On 04/15/2015 08:16 AM, Jake Young wrote: >> >> Has anyone compiled ceph (either osd or client) on a Solaris based OS? >> >> The thread on ZFS support for osd got me thinking about using solaris as >> an osd server. It would have much better ZFS performance and I wonder if >> the osd performance without a journal would be 2x better. > > > Doubt it. You may be able to do a little better, but you have to pay the > piper some how. If you clone from journal you will introduce fragmentation. > If you throw the journal away you'll suffer for everything but very large > writes unless you throw safety away. I think if we are going to generally > beat filestore (not just for optimal benchmarking tests!) it's going to take > some very careful cleverness. Thankfully Sage is very clever and is working > on it in newstore. Even there, filestore has been proving difficult to beat > for writes. > >> >> A second thought I had was using the Comstar iscsi / fcoe target >> software that is part of Solaris. Has anyone done anything with a ceph >> rbd client for Solaris based OSs? > > > No idea! > >> >> Jake >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list >> ceph-users@lists.ceph.com >> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >> > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
