Re: crush: straw is dead, long live straw2

2014-12-12 Thread Joe Landman
On 12/12/2014 11:20 AM, Sage Weil wrote: We can't use floating point. The code needs to run in the kernel. We also need the rseults to be perfectly deterministic and consistent across all architectures; I'm not sure if all floating point implementations (and log implementations) will do that?

Re: crush: straw is dead, long live straw2

2014-12-12 Thread Joe Landman
On 12/12/2014 11:20 AM, Sage Weil wrote: We can't use floating point. The code needs to run in the kernel. We also need the rseults to be perfectly deterministic and consistent across all architectures; I'm not sure if all floating point implementations (and log implementations) will do that?

Re: crush: straw is dead, long live straw2

2014-12-12 Thread Joe Landman
On 12/12/2014 09:46 AM, Sage Weil wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Sage Weil wrote: Calculating the ln() function is a bit annoying because it is a floating point function and CRUSH is all fixed-point arithmetic (integer-based). The current draft implementation uses a 128 KB

Re: ceph-standalone

2014-02-24 Thread Joe Landman
On 02/24/2014 04:33 PM, Jean-Charles LOPEZ wrote: Hi Joe, I already have a VM that is very close to what Sage is talking about. Just need to get the MDS configured on it and it should be ready. Will keep you in the loop when I need scripting it. Ok. Thanks. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder

Re: ceph-standalone

2014-02-24 Thread Joe Landman
On 02/24/2014 04:26 PM, Loic Dachary wrote: On 24/02/2014 21:59, Jean-Charles LOPEZ wrote: Hi Sage, I think this is a great idea. However, I would recommend that two options to be available: 1) First options is a standalone package as you describe it 2) Second option is a prepackaged VM in O

Re: Ideal hardware spec?

2012-08-24 Thread Joe Landman
On 08/24/2012 10:17 AM, Stephen Perkins wrote: The thought here is that you can add compute nodes, storage shelves, and disks all independently. With proper masking, you could provide redundancy to cover drive, node, and shelf failures.You could also add disks "horizontally" if you have s

Quick CentOS/RHEL question ...

2012-07-31 Thread Joe Landman
Hi folks I was struggling and failing to get Ceph properly built/installed for CentOS 6 (and 5) last week. Is this simply not a recommended platform? Please advise. Thanks! -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.com web : h

Running into an error with mkcephfs

2012-07-20 Thread Joe Landman
Hi folks: Setting up a test cluster. Simple ceph.conf [global] auth supported = cephx [mon] mon data = /data/mon$id debug ms = 1 [mon.0] host = n01 mon addr = 10.202.1.142:6789 [mon.1] host = n02 mon addr = 10.202.1.141:6789 [mon.2]