Hi Eugen.

Just tried everything again here by removing the /sda4 partitions and
letting it so that either salt-run proposal-populate or salt-run state.orch
ceph.stage.configure could try to find the free space on the partitions to
work with: unsuccessfully again. :(

Just to make things clear: are you so telling me that it is completely
impossible to have a ceph "volume" in non-dedicated devices, sharing space
with, for instance, the nodes swap, boot or main partition?

And so the only possible way to have a functioning ceph distributed
filesystem working would be by having in each node at least one disk
dedicated for the operational system and another, independent disk
dedicated to the ceph filesystem?

That would be a awful drawback in our plans if real, but if there is no
other way, we will have to just give up. Just, please, answer this two
questions clearly, before we capitulate?  :(

Anyway, thanks a lot, once again,

Jones

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 5:39 AM Eugen Block <ebl...@nde.ag> wrote:

> Hi Jones,
>
> I still don't think creating an OSD on a partition will work. The
> reason is that SES creates an additional partition per OSD resulting
> in something like this:
>
> vdb               253:16   0    5G  0 disk
> ├─vdb1            253:17   0  100M  0 part /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-1
> └─vdb2            253:18   0  4,9G  0 part
>
> Even with external block.db and wal.db on additional devices you would
> still need two partitions for the OSD. I'm afraid with your setup this
> can't work.
>
> Regards,
> Eugen
>
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